William Wells Brown, an African American life, Ezra Greenspan
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William Wells Brown, an African American life, Ezra Greenspan
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-575) and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
Illustrations
illustrationsplates
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
William Wells Brown
Nature of contents
bibliography
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884631079
Responsibility statement
Ezra Greenspan
Sub title
an African American life
Summary
"Born into slavery in Kentucky, raised on the Western frontier on the farm adjacent to Daniel Boone's, "rented" out in adolescence to a succession of steamboat captains on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the young man known as "Sandy" reinvented himself as "William Wells" Brown after escaping to freedom. He lifted himself out of illiteracy and soon became an innovative, widely admired, and hugely popular speaker on antislavery circuits (both American and British) and went on to write the earliest African American works in a plethora of genres: travelogue, novel (the now canonized Clotel), printed play, and history. He also practiced medicine, ran for office, and campaigned for black uplift, temperance, and civil rights" -- Publisher's description
Table of contents
Part I. From life to letters -- 1. Antecedents in black and white -- 2. Down the river, up the river -- 3. Sweet freedom -- 4. The road to reform -- 5. Narrative of a life, life of a narrative -- Part 2. England -- 6. London, the biggest stage -- 7. "Almost an Englishman" -- Part 3. Civil war -- 8. "Upon an experimental voyage" -- 9. The black man at war -- Part 4. "The world does move " -- 10. "Help me to find my people" -- 11. My southern home, revisited
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