Albery Allson Whitman was an African-American poet, minister and orator. Born into slavery, Whitman became a writer. During his lifetime he was acclaimed as the "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race". He worked as a manual laborer, school teacher, financial agent, fundraiser and pastor. He died in Atlanta in 1901 of pneumonia.
- Occupation
- poet, preacher, clergyman
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 30, 1851, 1851, May 30, 1852
- Died
- 1901, June 29, 1901
