James McCune Smith (1813 - November 17, 1865), born to an enslaved mother in New York, was the first professionally trained African-American doctor. He attended the University of Glasgow in Scotland, where he received a doctorate in medicine in 1837. While in Scotland, Smith was a member of the Glasgow Emancipation Society . During the 1850s, he helped Frederick Douglass to establish the National Council of the Colored People .
Some of his published essays
- "A Lecture on the Haitian Revolution" (1841)
- "The Destiny of the People of Color"
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