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William Wells Brown

An African-American Life

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William Wells Brown

De: Ezra Greenspan
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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 and British) and went on to write the earliest African American works in a plethora of genres: travelogue, novel (the now canonized Clotel), printed play, and history. He also practiced medicine, ran for office, and campaigned for Black uplift, temperance, and civil rights.

Ezra Greenspan’s masterful work, elegantly written and rigorously researched, sets Brown’s life in the richly rendered context of his times, creating a fascinating portrait of an inventive writer who dared to challenge the racial orthodoxies and explore the racial complexities of nineteenth-century America.

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William was born in the slavery in Kentucky, and eventually decided to liberate himself. But unused to the harsh conditions of the north he ended up getting aid from a white Quaker in Ohio whose name was Wells Brown. William chose his rescuers name as his own and will go onto be involved in the underground railroad and anti-slavery movements. He also wrote several books and collected anti-slavery songs in the “Anti-slavery Harp“. My favorite story of his was after the Civil War, while making speeches in Kentucky in support of temperance, he was betrayed by another black man who led him into a trap of some white men that intended to murder Brown. Brown was tied up and they were taking him to his death when they were interrupted by a man who said one of their friend was very sick and possibly dying in a state of delirium. Though Brown was a medical doctor but he told his kidnappers that he was a witchdoctor and could help the afflicted man. They agreed and Brown secretly injected the sick man with morphine which only knocked him out but the murderers thought since their friend was sleeping calmly, the magician had cure him. When the leader of the gang complained of sciatica, Brown claimed he had a spell to cure that too, which was again just morphine. By this time, most of the thugs were either drugged up or asleep and William Wells Brown was able to slip away and escape his premature end.

A good biography of a man who has been lost history

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