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After Frederick Douglass, no other formerly enslaved person than William Wells Brown had so skillfully contested racial slavery in the United States and the anti-Black prejudices underlying and outlasting its existence. Born into slavery in Lexington, Kentucky, Brown escaped captivity and eventually settled in Boston, the northern epicenter of organized abolitionism. He emerged as a prominent reformer and race leader whose printed essays, speeches, and correspondence reinforced an overarching quest to advance African Americans individually and collectively throughout the Civil War era. As a lifelong memoirist, he probed the story of himself in creative and no less challenging ways. And, as a published novelist, playwright, and travel writer, Brown achieved pathbreaking firsts for a person of color in the United States.
Historian Raymond Krohn surveys Brown's remarkable activism and extraordinary career. He situates Brown's career within prevailing antiabolitionist and anti-Black contexts, thereby affording readers a unique opportunity to follow his lifelong quest on behalf of racial advancement. He will especially consider the political, social, cultural, and intellectual environments that Brown had worked in and against.
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1. Enslavement and Self-Emancipation
2. Fugitivity and New Freedom Struggles in the United States
3. Fugitivity and New Freedom Struggles in Great Britain
4. Militancy amid Disunion and Civil War
5. Persistence and Reunion and Sectional Reconciliation
Conclusion: The Brown Legacy
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| Published | 29 Apr 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9798216482017 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Library of African American Biography |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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