Three Years in Europe
Author : William Wells Brown
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Page : 354 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Antislavery movements
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Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Antislavery movements
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Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 2014
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781107589988
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.
Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2009-10-28
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ISBN : 144290903X
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Author : W. Wells Brown
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Page : 91 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 2018-11-08
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ISBN : 9781731052810
A classic collection of letters by William Wells Brown, a former slave who became a prominent African-American author and abolitionist. The letters describe Brown's time in Europe and his observations on race relations and the treatment of people of color in Europe.
Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781500524876
A narrative of the life of the author of the present work has been most extensively circulated in England and America. The present memoir will, therefore, simply comprise a brief sketch of the most interesting portion of Mr. Brown's history while in America, together with a short account of his subsequent cisatlantic career. The publication of his adventures as a slave, and as a fugitive from slavery in his native land, has been most valuable in sustaining a sound anti-slavery spirit in Great Britain. His honourable reception in Europe may be equally serviceable in America, as another added to the many practical protests previously entered from this side of the Atlantic, against the absolute bondage of three millions and a quarter of the human race, and the semi-slavery involved in the social and political proscription of 600,000 free coloured people in that country.
Author : William Wells Brown
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 1852
Category : France
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Author : W. Wells Brown
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2015-07-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781515009429
A NARRATIVE of the life of the author of the present work has been most extensively circulated in England and America. The present memoir will, therefore, simply comprise a brief sketch of the most interesting portion of Mr. Brown's history while in America, together with a short account of his subsequent cisatlantic career. The publication of his adventures as a slave, and as a fugitive from slavery in his native land, has been most valuable in sustaining a sound anti-slavery spirit in Great Britain. His honourable reception in Europe may be equally serviceable in America, as another added to the many practical protests previously entered from this side of the Atlantic, against the absolute bondage of three millions and a quarter of the human race, and the semi-slavery involved in the social and political proscription of 600,000 free coloured people in that country. William Wells Brown was born at Lexington, in the state of Kentucky, as nearly as he can tell in the autumn of 1814. In the Southern States of America, the pedigree and age of a horse or a dog are carefully preserved, but no record is kept of the birth of a slave. All that Mr. Brown knows upon the subject is traditionally, that he was born "about corn-cutting time" of that year. His mother was a slave named Elizabeth, the property of Dr. Young, a physician. His father was George Higgins, a relative of his master.
Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491088838
A narrative of the life of the author of the present work has been most extensively circulated in England and America. The present memoir will, therefore, simply comprise a brief sketch of the most interesting portion of Mr. Brown's history while in America, together with a short account of his subsequent cisatlantic career. The publication of his adventures as a slave, and as a fugitive from slavery in his native land, has been most valuable in sustaining a sound anti-slavery spirit in Great Britain. His honourable reception in Europe may be equally serviceable in America, as another added to the many practical protests previously entered from this side of the Atlantic, against the absolute bondage of three millions and a quarter of the human race, and the semi-slavery involved in the social and political proscription of 600,000 free coloured people in that country. William Wells Brown was born at Lexington, in the state of Kentucky, as nearly as he can tell in the autumn of 1814. In the Southern States of America, the pedigree and age of a horse or a dog are carefully preserved, but no record is kept of the birth of a slave. All that Mr. Brown knows upon the subject is traditionally, that he was born "about corn-cutting time" of that year. His mother was a slave named Elizabeth, the property of Dr. Young, a physician. His father was George Higgins, a relative of his master.
Author : Wells William Brown
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
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ISBN : 9781435383838
Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 1855
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