William Wells Brown an African American life
"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 "Wi...
| Main Author: | Greenspan, Ezra. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. From life to letters
- 1. Antecedents in black and white
- 2. Down the river, up the river
- 3. Sweet freedom
- 4. The road to reform
- 5. Narrative of a life, life of a narrative
- Part 2. England
- 6. London, the biggest stage
- 7. "Almost an Englishman"
- Part 3. Civil war
- 8. "Upon an experimental voyage"
- 9. The black man at war
- Part 4. "The world does move "
- 10. "Help me to find my people"
- 11. My southern home, revisited.