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"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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Other Authors: Greenspan, Ezra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Brown, William Wells, > 1814?-1884 > Writing skill.
Brown, William Wells, > 1814?-1884.
Brown, William Wells, > 1814?-1884 > Travel.
Brown, William Wells, > 1814?-1884 > Literary art.
African Americans > Historiography.
Autobiography > African American authors.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Antislavery movements > United States > Historiography.
African Americans > Biography.
African American authors > Biography.
Fugitive slaves > United States > Biography.
Noirs américains > Historiographie.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Historiographie.
Noirs américains > Biographies.
Écrivains noirs américains > Biographies.
Esclaves fugitifs > États-Unis > Biographies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > American > African American.
African American authors.
African Americans.
American literature > African American authors.
Antislavery movements > Historiography.
Fugitive slaves.
Travel.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Writing fugitive slave autobiography
  • Writing antislavery oratory
  • Writing African American travelogue
  • Writing African American fiction
  • Writing African American drama
  • Writing African American history
  • Writing African American Civil War history
  • Writing African American memoir.

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