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Narrative of the author's experiences as a slave in St. Louis and elsewhere.
Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Slavery
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Narrative of the author's experiences as a slave in St. Louis and elsewhere.
Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher : Signet
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
Release : 1993
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780451628602
The first African-American man of letters recalls his life as a slave in one volume featuring his two classic works, Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave (1848) and My Southern Home. Original.
Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Abolitionists
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Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 1880
Category : African Americans
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Author : Ezra Greenspan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393242005
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Biography' A groundbreaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African-American writer of the nineteenth century. 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.
Author : Henry Box Brown
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 1851
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
The life of a slave in Virginia and his escape to Philadelphia.
Author : John Brown
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Slavery
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Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781581128994
Clotelle; or the Colored Heroine by William Wells Brown (1814 - 1884) was originally printed by the Press of Geo. C Rand and Avery in 1867. This reproduction is reset line-for-line, page-for-page from a copy in the Negro Collection of the Fisk University Library by Jeffrey Young & Associates.
Author : William Wells Brown
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2021-05-21
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Originally published in 1847, William W. Brown offers a first-person narrative that details his enslavement and the daring escape that ultimately led to his freedom. It's a captivating tale and testament to the perseverance and strength of the human spirit. In this narrative, William W. Brown presents the true story of his birth and life as an enslaved African American. He provides a truthful look at his origins, noting the unfortunate dynamic between his Black mother and white father. Brown goes into great detail explaining the rules and regulations of plantation life. He also discusses working on a steamboat, which eventually leads to his escape. Narrative of William W. Brown is a sobering story that illuminates the horrors of an inhumane institution. It's personal and vital record that gives insight into the darkest time in American history. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Narrative of William W. Brown is both modern and readable.
Author : Geoffrey Sanborn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231540582
William Wells Brown (1814–1884) was a vocal abolitionist, a frequent antagonist of Frederick Douglass, and the author of Clotel, the first known novel by an African American. He was also an extensive plagiarist, copying at least 87,000 words from close to 300 texts. In this critical study of Brown's work and legacy, Geoffrey Sanborn offers a novel reading of the writer's plagiarism, arguing the act was a means of capitalizing on the energies of mass-cultural entertainments popularized by showmen such as P. T. Barnum. By creating the textual equivalent of a variety show, Brown animated antislavery discourse and evoked the prospect of a pleasurably integrated world. Brown's key dramatic protagonists were the "spirit of capitalization"—the unscrupulous double of Max Weber's spirit of capitalism—and the "beautiful slave girl," a light-skinned African American woman on the verge of sale and rape. Brown's unsettling portrayal of these figures unfolded within a riotous patchwork of second-hand texts, upset convention, and provoked the imagination. Could a slippery upstart lay the groundwork for a genuinely interracial society? Could the fetishized image of a not-yet-sold woman hold open the possibility of other destinies? Sanborn's analysis of pastiche and plagiarism adds new depth to the study of nineteenth-century culture and the history of African American literature, suggesting modes of African American writing that extend beyond narratives of necessity and purpose, characterized by the works of Frederick Douglass and others.