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The Narrative of William Wells Brown, a Fugitive Slave
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  • Título The Narrative of William Wells Brown, a Fugitive Slave
  • Autor William Wells Brown
  • Encuadernación Tapa blanda
  • Páginas 62
  • Volúmenes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Fecha de publicación 2012-12-27
  • ISBN 9781481829168 / 1481829165
  • Peso 0.18 libras (0.08 kg)
  • Dimensiones 8.5 x 5.51 x 0.13 pulgadas (21.59 x 14.00 x 0.33 cm)
  • Temas
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Topical: Civil War
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Dewey Decimal Code 508.946

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William Wells Brown (November 6, 1814 - November 6, 1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer. Brown was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama, and wrote what is considered to be the first novel by an African American. An almost exact contemporary of Frederick Douglass, Wells Brown was overshadowed by Douglass and the two feuded publicly. William Wells Brown was born into slavery in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was owned by a Dr. Young and had seven children, all with different fathers. (In addition to Brown, her children were Solomon, Leander, Benjamin, Joseph, Milford, and Elizabeth.) Brown's father was George Higgins, a white plantation owner and cousin of the owner of the plantation where Brown was born. Even though Young promised Higgins never to sell the boy, he was sold multiple times before he was twenty years old. Brown spent the majority of his youth in St. Louis. His masters hired him out to work on the Missouri River, then a major thoroughfare for the slave trade. He made several attempts to escape, and on New Year's Day of 1834, he successfully slipped away from a steamboat at a dock in Cincinnati, Ohio. He adopted the name of a Quaker friend of his, who had helped him after his escape by providing him with food, clothes and some money. Shortly after gaining his freedom, he met and married Elizabeth Schooner, a free African-American woman, from whom he separated and later divorced, causing a minor scandal. Together they had three daughters. From 1836 to about 1845, Brown made his home in Buffalo, New York, where he served as a conductor for the Underground Railroad and as a steam boatman on Lake Erie, a position he used to ferry escaped slaves to freedom in Canada. There Brown became active in the abolitionist movement by joining several anti-slavery societies and the Negro Convention Movement.

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