2014-12-20T13:31:07-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/442/20141220133525002_hd.jpgEzra Greenspan talked about his book, William Wells Brown: An African American ...

Upstate New York was a hotbed in the 19th century for the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. Names like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Gerrit Smith are familiar. But there ...

"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 ...

First work originally published: 2nd ed. Boston : Anti-Slavery Office, 1848. 2nd work originally published: Boston : [s.n.], 1880. Originally published as a ...

Greenspan, an English professor at Southern Methodist University, reconsiders the life of William Wells Brown, a once-prominent but widely forgotten activist whose “eventful life of journeys” makes ...

Founded in 1915, by Carter G. Woodson, The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) promotes, researches, preserves, interprets, and disseminates information about Black ...

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, ...