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SMITH, Ezekiel Ezra, educator, born in Duplin county, North Carolina, 23 May, 1852. He is of African descent and was born a slave, but enjoyed early educational advantages, studied in the public schools, and became a teacher in 1870. In 1873-'4 he was one of the Jubilee singers that raised $20,000 for Shaw university, at which he was graduated in 1878, and in the next year he was licensed to preach. He was principal of the graded school at Goldsborough, North Carolina, from 1879 till 1883, when he became principal of the State colored normal school at Fayetteville, North Carolina He was secretary of the State colored Baptist convention in 1876-'83, commissioned major of the 4th battalion of the North Carolina guards in 1880, and in 1888 was appointed United States minister and consul-general to Liberia, Africa. He was a founder of the North Carolina industrial association, and established and edited the " Carolina Enterprise."
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