William Wells Brown: An African American Life

by Ezra Greenspan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393240908
• ISBN13: 9780393240900
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.5" x 9.7"