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William Wells Brown: An African American Life

by Ezra Greenspan

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 becam

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

2014

Format

Print edition

Pages

614

ISBN

9780393240900