Thomas Pringle

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Thomas Pringle is a Scottish-born poet, writer, and abolitionist often regarded as the "father of South African poetry" for his influential early 19th-century literary and anti-slavery work.

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instanceOf abolitionist
human
poet
birthName Thomas Pringle
causeOfDeath pulmonary disease
coFounded Cape Town Gazette
South African Journal
countryOfCitizenship Scotland
dateOfBirth 1789-01-05
dateOfDeath 1834-12-05
describedBySource Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
educatedAt University of Edinburgh
employer Anti-Slavery Society
Cape Town Gazette
South African Journal
ethnicGroup Scottish
fieldOfWork abolitionism
journalism
poetry
genre poetry
political writing
travel writing
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions
movement abolitionism
name Thomas Pringle
notableFor anti-slavery activism
being regarded as the father of South African poetry
early 19th-century South African literary work
notableWork A Sketch of the Present State of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
African Sketches
Ephemerides; or, Occasional Poems
Narrative of a Residence in South Africa
Poems, Chiefly Written During the Late War
Some Account of the Present State of the English Settlers in Albany, South Africa
The Bechuana Boy
occupation editor
journalist
poet
writer
participantIn 1820 British Settler movement to the Cape Colony
placeOfBirth Blenchfield, Roxburghshire, Scotland
placeOfDeath London, England
positionHeld secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society
residence Cape Colony
London
linked to: London, England

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Polly workedWith Thomas Pringle
Mary Prince collaboratedWith Thomas Pringle
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself editor Thomas Pringle
subject linked to: Mary Prince
Thomas Pringle name Thomas Pringle
Thomas Pringle birthName Thomas Pringle