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William Wells Brown: An African-American Life
By Greenspan, Ezra
- ISBN
- 9780393240900 9780393242003
- Publisher
- Norton
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Reviewed on September 15, 2014 | Social Sciences
Greenspan (English, Southern Methodist Univ.; William Wells Brown: A Reader) has written the second full biography of William Wells Brown and the first published since 1969. Born a slave in Kentucky in 1814, Brown was raised near St. Louis and contracted to work on riverboats along the Mississippi River until he managed a successful escape to Ohio in 1833. Brown became a popular speaker on the abolitioni...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
