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Anton Wilhelm Amo Afer was brought from modern-day Ghana to Germany in 1707, educated at a duke's court and became an eminent philosopher. How did contemporaries react to this first African professor in Europe? What is known about his own teachings?

by /u/drylaw in /r/AskHistorians

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