VOLUME 2 • ISSUE 1

CELESTINE
EDWARDS


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NAME

Celestine Edwards
Also known as “the Negro lecturer”

BORN:
Samuel Jules Celestine Edwards
28th December, 1858
Dominica

PROFESSION

Abolitionist lecturer, newspaper editor

FAMILY

PARENTS:
unknown

SIBLINGS:
Eight (names unknown)

EDUCATION

1891 Theology degree, King’s College, London, England
1894 London Hospital, London, England (enrolled 1894)

CAREER

1870 Sailor (stowed away on a French ship)
1870 Casual building labourer
1870 Activist and Temperance lecturer (1870–94)
1892 Editor of Lux (1892–1895)
1893 Editor of Anti-Caste
1893 Editor of Fraternity (1893–94)

WORKS

BOOKS
1891 From Slavery to Bishopric—the life, struggles and successes of Bishop Walter Hawkins, (co-authored the autobiography)

NOTABLE

First Black man to edit a white-owned newspaper

Was the executive secretary of the Society for the Recognition of the Brotherhood of Man

Co-authored the autobiography, From Slavery to Bishopric, of Bishop Walter Hawkins, a former slave who became a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada

Is considered an important abolitionist in East London history (www.eastlondonhistory.com/celestine-edwards)

DIED

25th July, 1894
Dominica
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