Publication

2014 - W. W. Norton & Company, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

153,500 words, Guess

Page Count

614 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780393240900
  • Open LibraryOL27175021M

Classifications

  • DDC818/.409
  • DDCB
  • LCCPS1139.B9 Z64 2014
and 1 more
  • LCCPS1139.B9Z64 2014

Description

"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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • William Wells Brown: an African American lifeW. W. Norton & Company2014-01-01

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