William Wells Brown: An African American Life
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393240908
ISBN13:9780393240900
Release Date:October 2014
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:624 Pages
Weight:2.43 lbs.
Dimensions:1.9" x 6.5" x 9.7"
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