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From Fugitive Slave to Free Man: The Autobiographies of William Wells Brown
Growing up as a slave in an urban area of Missouri allowed William Wells Brown to live a life that was different from that of the plantation slave so often discussed in slave histories. Born in 1814, the son of a white man and a slave woman, Brown spent the first twenty years of his life mainly in St. Louis and the surrounding areas working as a house servant, a field hand
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Paperback
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320 pages
Published
April 13th 2003
by University of Missouri
(first published July 1st 1993)
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Reading William Wells Brown's autobiography, I recognized his parlance to reflect someone that is educated and well-read. Throughout this read I referred to my dictionary frequently which was fine with me, I warmly welcome any new words to my own personal vernacular. I enjoyed it in the beginning, but started to grow bored as I neared the end. The book compiles several short stories in which Brown tells about different encounters during his time as a slave and freeman. I did not grasp any explic
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William Wells Brown was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North in 1834, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer. His novel
Clotel
(1853) is considered the first novel written by an African American; it was published in London, where he was living a
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