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Born A Slave And Kept Functionally Illiterate Until He Escaped At Age Nineteen, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) Refashioned Himself First As An Agent Of The Underground Railroad And Then As An Antislavery Activist And Self-taught Orator And Author, Eventually Becoming A Foundational Figure Of African American Literature. For His Bicentennial, The Library Of America Presents The Most Comprehensive Edition Of Brown's Writing Ever Published, An Extraordinary Collection Of Landmark Works That Together Give Voice To His Passionate Commitment To Freedom And Equality. A Gripping Account Of His Childhood, Life In Slavery, And Eventual Escape, Brown's First Published Book, Narrative Of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave (1847), Was An Immediate Bestseller, With Four Editions In Its First Year.^ Like Frederick Douglass's Narrative, The Only Slave Autobiography To Sell More Copies Before The Civil War, It Unmasks The Hypocrisy Of Christian Slaveholders And Exposes With Startling Intensity The Violence Of Slave Life. Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter (1853), The First Novel Written By An African American And Brown's Most Ambitious Work, Purports To Be The History Of Thomas Jefferson's Black

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Author

Brown, William, Wells

Publisher

The Library of America

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781598532913

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, Memoir, Sociology