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Moses A. Hopkins
1846–1886
United States
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Moses Aaron Hopkins (December 25, 1846 – August 7, 1886) was an American clergyman and educator who served as United States minister (ambassador) to Liberia in 1885–1886. He was the first formerly enslaved person to serve the United States in that capacity. He died while in Liberia.
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