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William Wells Brown served as one of the first black novelists

ST. LOUIS – William Wells Brown, a former slave from St. Louis, became one of the first published Black novelists and playwrights in the United States. Brown used his experiences as a laborer on ...
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New details about author William Wells Brown's life found by Texas professor

"I was born in Lexington, Ky." That is the first sentence of the first chapter of the first manuscript published by William Wells Brown, the first and most prolific black writer published in the 19th ...
St. Louis American

‘In The Walnut Grove’ gives Florissant’s history of slavery a close look

Constructed around 1790, Taille de Noyer, mentioned in “In the Walnut Grove: A Consideration of the People Enslaved in and Around Florissant, Missouri” sits on the campus of McCluer High School. Today ...
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William Wells Brown : an African American life / Ezra Greenspan

Part 1: From life to letters. Antecedents in black and white ; Down the river, up the river ; Sweet freedom ; The road to reform ; Narrative of a life, life of a narrative -- Part 2: England. London, ...
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The travels of William Wells Brown, including The narrative of William Wells Brown, a fugitive slave, and The American fugitive in Europe, sketches of places and people abroad ...

Reprint (2nd work). Originally published: Boston : John P. Jewett, 1855. siris_sil_495001 ...