The Death of Thomas Durham

The only published work with information about Durham's life is Marika Sherwood's biography of Henry Sylvester Williams, another important Afro-Trinidadian. He organized the first ever Pan-African conference in London in 1900 thereby giving the movement its name. But unlike his brothers and other figures we'll be discussing soon, such as Anna Julia Cooper and W.E.B. Du Bois, Durham does not appear on Sherwood's list of attendees at the Pan- African conference. So where was he? We can't say for sure, but a scholar named Peter Frazier has found a record of Durham in the Gold Coast, or present day Ghana, in 1915.