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      Short Account of Anthony William A mo , a learned Negro . [ Translated from the Abbe Gregoire ^ s Literature des JSTegres . 8 vo . Paris 1808 . P 198 , &c ] ANTHONY WILLIAM AMO , a native of Guinea , was brought

      to Amsterdam in 1707 , when very young , and presented to Anthony Ulric , Duke of Brunswick Wolfenbuttle . That prince gave him to his son Augustus William , by whom he was sent for education to the

      Universities of Halle , in Saxony , and Wittemberg . In the first , in 1729 , under the presidency of the Chancellor de Ludwig , he maintained a thesis , and published a dissertation de jure Maurorum , on the Law of the Moors .

      Amo was skilled in astronomy , and spoke Latin , Greek , * Hebrew , French , Dutch and German . He so distinguished himself by his talents and good conduct that the rector and the council of the

      University of Wittemberg thought proper in 1733 to pay him a public compliment , by a congratulatory epistle , in which they recollected that Terence was also of Africa , that many martyrs , doctors , fathers of the church were natives of that country where learning once flourished till , with the loss of

      Christianity , it reverted to barbarism . Amo devoted himself with success to the particular studies of which the

      1 This prince published the reasons which determined him to become a Catholic , ia a short but excellent work , entitled , Fifty Reasons why the Roman Catholic Apostolic Rfclig-ion ought to be preferred l all the Sects , &c . in 12 mo . London . 1

      798 . 8 Beschreiburg" des Saal Creises , Inscription of the Circle ofSaale , in Fol . Halle . 1749 . Vol . ii . p . 28 . I owe this reference , and the greatest part of the information concerning Amo , to Blumenbach .

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      epistle made honourable mention . In a programme ( prospectus ) publicly announced by the dean of the faculty of philosophy , it is said of this learned Negro , that having examined the systems of the ancients and moderns he had selected and proposed what appeared excellent in either .

      Amo , now become a Doctor , maintained , in 1744 , at Wittemberg , a thesis , and published a Dissertation upon Sensations considered as distinct from the Soul and present to the Body . In a letter which the president wrote to him , he is entitled a

      most noble and enlightened man , vir nobilissime et clarissime . Thus the University of Wittemberg was free from those absurd prejudices , respecting difference of colour , which so many men have discovered who pretend to be enlightened . The president declared that lie had corrected

      nothing- in the Dissertation of Arno , because it was so well finished . Certainly that work discovers a mind accustomed to reflection . He endeavours to determine the differences in the phenomena , between beings existing without life , and living beings , A stone exists but it is not alive .

      K Abstruse questions appear to have possessed for our author a particular charm . After he became a Professor , he maintained , in the same year , a

      r * ¦• ' ' x ¦ ¦ - " ¦¦ — - 3 Excussis tarn veterum quam novorum placitis optima quaeque Kelegit , selecta enucleate ae dilucide interpretatns est .

      Di § sertatio inaugnuralis philosophica de humanae mentis AHA 0 EIA seu sentionis ac facilitates sentiendi in mente hurnana absentia , et earnm in corpore nostro org-anico ac vivo proesentia , quam

      preside , etc . publice defendit autor Ant . Guil . Amoy Guinea—afer philosophic , et L . C . magister , etc , 1734 , in 4 to . Wittenberg-ae . At the end are printed many piece * , among others the letters of coinplhntnt of the Rector . &c .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/1/