Paul Leroy Robeson was born April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey. His father was William D. Robeson, a prominent local minister who escaped from a plantation as a teenager, and his mother was Maria Louise Bustill, who was from a prominent and well settled Quaker family of English-American, Lenape Native, and West African descent. […]
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