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Three Years in Europe - Or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met (Paperback)
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Three Years in Europe - Or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
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William Wells Brown (1814? 84) was uncertain of his own birthday
because he was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. He managed
to escape to Ohio, a free state, in 1834. Obtaining work on
steamboats, he assisted many other slaves to escape across Lake
Erie to Canada. In 1849, having achieved prominence in the American
anti-slavery movement, he left for Europe, both to lecture against
slavery and also to gain an education for his daughters. He stayed
in Europe until 1854, since the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 had made
it possible that he could be taken back into slavery if he
returned. Meanwhile, he had begun to write both fiction and
non-fiction, and this account of his travels in Europe, prefaced by
a short biography, was published in 1852. Brown was able to return
to the United States in 1854, when British friends paid for his
freedom."
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