William Wells Brown - An African American Life (Hardcover)

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.

Ezra Greenspan s masterful work, elegantly written and rigorously researched, sets Brown s life in the richly rendered context of his times, creating a fascinating portrait of an inventive writer who dared to challenge the racial orthodoxies and explore the racial complexities of nineteenth-century America."

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2014
First published:	October 2014
Authors:	Ezra Greenspan
Dimensions:	244 x 168 x 46mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	624
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-24090-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Biography > Historical, political & military Promotions
LSN:	0-393-24090-8
Barcode:	9780393240900

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