F.Z.S. Peregrino (1851 - 1919): An Early Pan-Africanist

Abstract

Background: The career of F.Z.S. Peregrino provides an example of the pan-Africanism that developed within the African Diaspora of the later nineteenth century. It came to fruition in the 1900 Pan-African Conference, but almost lapsed thereafter. He was born in 1851 at Accra, and went to England in his adolescence. He became an ironworker in the industrial North and Midlands. In about 1900 he emigrated to Pittsburgh, and subsequently lived in New York State. Peregrino crossed the Atlantic again for the 1900 Pan-African Conference. This Conference inspired him to go to South Africa as an agent of pan-African ideas.