From Fugitive Slave to Free Man: The Autobiographies of William Wells Brown

by William Wells Brown

Book Overview

Growing up as a slave in an urban area of Missouri allowed William Wells Brown to live a life that was different from that of the plantation slave so often discussed in slave histories. Born in 1814, the son of a white man and a slave woman, Brown spent the first twenty years of his life mainly in St. Louis and the surrounding areas working as a house servant, a field hand, a tavern keeper's assistant, a printer's helper, an assistant in a medical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826214754
• ISBN13: 9780826214751
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5

Customer Reviews

A uniquely insightful and powerful historical narrative

Deftly edited for modern publication by William L. Andrews (E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), From Fugitive Slave To Free Man is a compilation of the two autobiographical works "Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself" and "My Southern Home" by William Wells Brown, who born in 1814 to a slave mother and a white father. Brown's varied life, and his perspective of slavery from all sides, make for a uniquely insightful and powerful historical narrative that has weathered the test of time. A welcome and valued contribution to American History, From Fugitive Slave To Free Man is a welcome addition to any academic or community library Black Studies collection.