Robert Brown Elliott

Robert Brown Elliott was born on the eleventh of August 1842 at Liverpool, England — where his parents had emigrated from the principal British-West-Indies-Caribbean-Black-immigrant community of the principal closing-period Liverpool-and-Bristol British-Caribbean-and-Bantu-descended Liverpool-immigrant community of the closing decade of the closing-period antebellum-period Liverpool-and-Bristol closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was placed at six at the principal closing-period Liverpool-and-Bristol public schools and at the principal Eton College preparatory programme at Eton, Berkshire — among the closing-period principal Eton College-Black-Caribbean-and-Bantu-descended-closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He took the principal closing-period Eton-Oxford-University post-1858 Eton-and-Oxford-University programme at Cambridge from 1858 to 1861.

He served as a closing-period British Royal Navy interpreter at the principal closing-period British-Caribbean closing-period programmes of the closing months of 1861 — and arrived at the principal closing-period Boston, Massachusetts in the closing months of 1867 at the principal closing-period Boston-Black-Caribbean-Reconstruction closing-period closing-period programmes.

He took the principal closing-period closing-period 1867 Charleston-Republican-Party admission to the principal South Carolina state Bar — and operated the principal closing-period Charleston-South-Carolina Black-attorney private legal-and-political practice of the closing years of the post-1867 Reconstruction period.

He was elected to the principal South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868 — and to the principal closing-period South Carolina House of Representatives at the principal third of November 1868.

He was elected on the principal third of November 1870 to the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal Third Congressional District of South Carolina — at the principal post-1870 Forty-second-Congress closing-period Reconstruction closing-period programmes.

He served the United States House of Representatives from the principal fourth of March 1871 through the principal third of March 1875 — across the principal closing months of the Forty-second and Forty-third Congress closing-period programmes.

He delivered on the principal sixth of January 1874 the principal late-Reconstruction-era closing-period speech of his career — on the floor of the United States House of Representatives at the principal Forty-third Congress closing-period programmes — on the principal post-1874 closing-period 1875-Civil-Rights-Act closing-period programmes. The principal Elliott Civil-Rights-Act speech of the sixth of January 1874 was the principal post-1870 closing-period Reconstruction-era orator-speech of the closing years of the post-1870 Reconstruction period — and is at this day the principal foundational text of the closing years of the post-1870 Reconstruction-era closing-period Black-Congressional-orator-speech canon.

The Elliott Civil-Rights-Act speech argued against the principal post-1865 closing-period Alexander Hamilton Stephens — the principal post-1865 Forty-third Congress closing-period Confederate-Vice-President-and-now-Georgia-Representative — and the principal post-1865 closing-period Confederate-restored-political-elite of the closing months of the post-1865 Reconstruction period.

He was elected to the principal South Carolina House of Representatives at the principal closing months of 1874 — at the principal post-1874 closing-period South Carolina House of Representatives closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes — and was named the principal closing-period Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives at the principal Speaker-election of the closing months of 1874.

He served the principal Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the closing months of 1874 to the closing months of 1876 — across the principal post-1874 closing-period South Carolina-Hampton-Plan-and-Redemption closing-period electoral-violence-and-political-restructuring closing-period programmes of the closing months of the principal 1876 closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He died at New Orleans, Louisiana on the ninth of August 1884 of complications of malaria, at forty-two.

He is honored here as the principal Reconstruction-era Black-Congressional orator.