William Wells Brown: A Reader

Author/Contributor(s):	Greenspan, Ezra
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	12/15/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Born into slavery in Kentucky, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was kept functionally illiterate until after his escape at the age of nineteen. Remarkably, he became the most widely published and versatile African American writer of the nineteenth century as well as an important leader in the abolitionist and temperance movements.