William Wells Brown
Literary art
Antislavery movements, united states
Fugitive slaves
Autobiography
Antislavery movements
African American authors
African americans, biography
Historiography
Authors, biography
American literature
Travel
African Americans
History and criticism
Biography
"Born into slavery in Kentucky, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was kept functionally illiterate until after his escape at the age of nineteen. Remarkably, he became the most widely published and versatile African American writer of the nineteenth century as well as an important leader in the abolit…
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