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."
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