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Jesse Ewing Glasgow
1837–1860
United States
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Jesse Ewing Glasgow Jr. (c. 1823 – 20 December 1860) was an African-American intellectual from Philadelphia, who studied at the University of Edinburgh from 1858 to 1860. He authored the radical pamphlet on John Brown's Harper's Ferry Raid in 1859.
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