William Wells Brown: Apostle of Racial Advancement in the Age of Abolition, (Hardcover)

<p>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. </p><p>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.</p>

• William Wells Brown: Apostle of Racial Advancement in the Age of Abolition, (Hardcover)
• Author: Raymond Krohn
• ISBN: 9798881803308
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2027-04-29
• Page Count: 224