Augustus Washington
| ụdịekere | nwoke  |
|---|---|
| mba o sị | Njikota Obodo Amerika, Liberia |
| aha enyere | Augustus |
| aha ezinụlọ ya | Washington |
| ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya | 1820 |
| Ebe ọmụmụ | Trenton |
| Ụbọchị ọnwụ ya | 7 Jụn 1875 |
| Ebe ọ nwụrụ | Monrovia |
| asụsụ ọ na-asụ, na-ede ma ọ bụ were na-ebinye aka | Bekee |
| Ọkwá o ji | Member of the Senate of Liberia, Member of the House of Representatives of Liberia |
| ebe agụmakwụkwọ | Dartmouth College, Kimball Union Academy |
| Ebe obibi | Monrovia, Hartford |
| agbụrụ | Ndi Afrika nke Amerika |
| ihe omume dị ịrịba ama | Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 |
| Nwere ọrụ na mkpokọta | The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art |
| ikike nwebiisinka dị ka onye okike | copyrights on works have expired |
| omenkà faịlụ na | Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library |
Augustus Washington (ihe dị ka ọnwa Juun 7
afọ 7, 1875) bụ onAmerịkaica na-ese foto na daguerreotypist. A mụrụ ya na New Jersey dị ka onye nweere onwe ya nke agba ma kwaga Libern'afọ na 1852. Ọ bụ otu n'ime ndị ịkacan-Aịkacan daguerreotypists ole na ole nke e dere ọrụ ya.[1]
Akụkọ ndụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]A mụrụ Augustus Washington na Trenton, New Jersey, dị ka nwa nke onye bụbu ohu na nwanyị si South Asia. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na Oneida Institute na Whitesboro, New York, na Kimball Union Academy, tupu ọ banye Dartmouth College n'afọ 1843. Ọ mụtara ime daguerreotypes n'afọ mbụ ya iji kwado agụmakwụkwọ kọleji ya, mana ọ hapụrụ Dartmouth College n'afọ 1844 n'ihi ụgwọ na-arịwanye elu. Ọ kwagara Hartford, Connecticut, na-akụzi ụmụ akwụkwọ ojii n'ụlọ akwụkwọ dị n'ógbè ahụ ma mepee ụlọ ọrụ Daguerrean n'afọ 1846.[2]
Washington mere mkpebi n'afọ 1852 ịhapụ ụlọ ya na Hartford, Connecticut, ịkwaga Liberia na West Afrịka. O were ya otu afọ iji nweta ego iji mee njem, ya na nwunye ya, Cordelia, na ụmụ ha abụọ kwagara n'afọ 1853. Ọ chọrọ ịkwaga Liberia iji sonyere ọtụtụ puku ndị Afrịka-Amerịka ndị ọzọ na-ahapụ United States iji malite mba ojii nweere onwe ya ọhụrụ n'Africa ebe a na-agaghịzi akparị ha ma nwee ikike ha nhata.[3] American Colonization Society malitere usoro nke ịkwaga ndị Afrịka Amerịka na Liberia iji nyere aka kwado mpaghara ahụ. Ọ bụ ezie na ebumnuche Washington bụ ịkwadebe ụzọ maka ógbè ndị Afrịka Amerịka mere ma ọ bụ maka ha, a ka na-eme ihe niile n'ime ógbè ndị ọzọ ma Washington n'onwe ya lere ndị Afrịka bi na Liberia anya dị ka "ndị na-ekpere arụsị" ndị ga-enwe ekele maka ndị Afrịka-Amerịka na-achị ala maka iwebata ha mmepeanya na okpukpe ọdịda anyanwụ.[3]
Ọrụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]A maara Washington nke ọma maka daguerreotype a ma ama nke John Brown.[4]
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Foto nke Chancy Brown, sergeant-at-arms maka Senate nke Liberia. -
Foto nke Joseph Jenkins Roberts, onye isi ala mbụ na nke asaa nke Liberia. -
Foto nke Urias McGill, onye ahịa na Monrovia, Liberia. -
John Brown na 1846 ma ọ bụ 1847.
- ↑ "A Durable Memento", Smithsonian, May 1, 1999. Retrieved on December 12, 2009. “Augustus Washington was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1820 or 1821. His father had been a slave in Virginia. His mother was a native of South Asia, but he says no more about her. She probably died young. His stepmother, described by Washington as 'an excellent Christian woman of Indian, white and negro extraction', had also been a slave.”
- ↑ The Connecticut Historical Society. Augustus Washington: Hartford's Black Daguerreotypist. Archived from the original on November 14, 2007. Retrieved on March 18, 2008.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Michelle Smith, Shawn. Augustus Washington Looks to Liberia. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. Duke University Press. Retrieved on March 18, 2008.
- ↑ Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego, At Freedom's Gate: Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs and the Story of Reconstruction Florida, B.A. Honors Thesis, (Hanover: Dartmouth College, 2007), 28–29; Augustus Washington, letter published in Charter Oak, Hartford Connecticut, 1846.