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The culmination of William Wells Brown's long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown's search for a home in a land of slavery and racism. Brown (1814-84), a prolific and celebrated abolitionist and writer often recognized as the first African American novelist for his Clotel (1853), was born enslaved in Kentucky and escaped to Ohio in 1834. In this comprehensive edition, John Ernest acts as a surefooted guide to this seminal work, beginning with a substantial introduction placing Brown's life and work in cultural and historical context. Brown addresses
African Americans --- Slavery --- Brown, William Wells, --- Southern States --- Social life and customs.
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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 abolitionist and temperance movements." "Brown wrote extensively as a journalist but was also a pioneer in other literary genres. His many groundbreaking works include Clotel, the first African American novel; The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom, the first published African American play; Three Years in Europe, the first African American European travelogue; and The Negro in the American Rebellion, the first history of African American military service in the Civil War. Brown also wrote one of the most important fugitive slave narratives and a striking array of subsequent self-narratives so inventively shifting in content, form, and textual presentation as to place him second only to Frederick Douglass among nineteenth-century African American autobiographers." "Ezra Greenspan has selected the best of Brown's work in a range of fields including fiction, drama, history, politics, autobiography, and travel. The volume opens with an introductory essay that places Brown and his work in a cultural and political context. Each chapter begins with a detailed introductory headnote, and the contents are closely annotated; there is also a selected bibliography. This reader offers an introduction to the work of a major African American writer who was engaged in many of the important debates of his time."--Jacket.
African Americans --- Autobiography --- American literature --- Antislavery movements --- African American authors --- Fugitive slaves --- Historiography --- History and criticism --- Brown, William Wells, --- Writing skill. --- Travel.
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By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it one of the fastest-selling antislavery tracts of its time. The book's popularity can be attributed both to the strong voice of its author and Brown's notoriety as an abolitionist speaker. The son of a slave and a white man, Brown recounts his years in servitude, his cruel masters, and the brutal whippings he and those around him received. He provides a detailed description of his failed attempt to escape with his mother; after their capture, they were sold to new masters. A subsequent escape attempt succeeds. He is taken in by a kind Quaker, Wells Brown, whose name he adopts in gratitude. Shortly thereafter, Brown crosses the Canadian border. Brown's Narrative includes stories of fighting devious slave traders and bounty hunters, various antislavery poems, articles and stories (written by him and others), newspaper clippings, reward posters, and slave sale announcements.
Fugitive slaves --- African Americans --- Enslaved persons --- Plantation life --- Slavery --- Enslaved persons' writings, American --- History --- Brown, William Wells, --- Slaves --- Slaves' writings, American
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William Wells Brown (1814–1884) was a vocal abolitionist, a frequent antagonist of Frederick Douglass, and the author of Clotel, the first known novel by an African American. He was also an extensive plagiarist, copying at least 87,000 words from close to 300 texts. In this critical study of Brown's work and legacy, Geoffrey Sanborn offers a novel reading of the writer's plagiarism, arguing the act was a means of capitalizing on the energies of mass-cultural entertainments popularized by showmen such as P. T. Barnum. By creating the textual equivalent of a variety show, Brown animated antislavery discourse and evoked the prospect of a pleasurably integrated world.Brown's key dramatic protagonists were the "spirit of capitalization"—the unscrupulous double of Max Weber's spirit of capitalism—and the "beautiful slave girl," a light-skinned African American woman on the verge of sale and rape. Brown's unsettling portrayal of these figures unfolded within a riotous patchwork of second-hand texts, upset convention, and provoked the imagination. Could a slippery upstart lay the groundwork for a genuinely interracial society? Could the fetishized image of a not-yet-sold woman hold open the possibility of other destinies? Sanborn's analysis of pastiche and plagiarism adds new depth to the study of nineteenth-century culture and the history of African American literature, suggesting modes of African American writing that extend beyond narratives of necessity and purpose, characterized by the works of Frederick Douglass and others.
Plagiarism --- American literature --- Abolitionists --- Authorship --- Copyright infringement --- Literary ethics --- Literature --- Quotation --- Torts --- Imitation in literature --- Originality in literature --- History --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Brown, William Wells, --- Brown, W. W. --- Brown, W. Wells --- Brown, Wm. Wells --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Brown, William Wells --- Criticism and interpretation --- History and criticism --- United States --- 19th century
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African Americans --- Fugitive slaves --- Brown, William Wells, --- Delany, Martin Robison, --- Delany, M. R. --- Brown, W. W. --- Brown, W. Wells --- Brown, Wm. Wells --- United States. --- Freedmen's Bureau --- United States --- History --- Participation, African American. --- AFRO-AMERICANS --- BIOGRAPHY --- DELANY (MARTIN R.)
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Harper, Frances E.W. --- Wilson, Harriet E. --- Delany, Martin R. --- Jacobs, Harriet --- Douglass, Frederick --- Brown, William Wells --- American literature --- Literature and society --- African Americans --- Social problems in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Afro-American authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Social conditions --- African American authors --- Intellectual life --- AUTEURS NOIRS AMERICAINS --- NOIRS AMERICAINS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE AFRO-AMERICAINE --- BROWN (WILLIAM WELLS) --- WILSON (HARRIET E.) --- DELANY (MARTIN R.) --- HARPER (FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS) --- DOUGLASS (FREDERICK), 1817?-1895 --- JACOBS (HARRIET ANN), 1813-1897 --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE
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Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literature during the long nineteenth century, a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War, Reconstruction, Pan–Americanism, and the black novel. Judith Madera argues that spatial reconfiguration was a critical concern for the era's black writers, and she also demonstrates how the possibility for new modes of representation could be found in the radical redistricting of space. Madera reveals how crucial geography was to the genre-bending works of writers such as William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, James Beckwourth, Pauline Hopkins, Charles Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. These authors intervened in major nineteenth-century debates about free soil, regional production, Indian deterritorialization, internal diasporas, pan–American expansionism, and hemispheric circuitry. Black geographies stood in for what was at stake in negotiating a shared world.
Littérature américaine --- Littérature et géographie --- Lieu (philosophie) --- Territorialité humaine --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- American literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- 19th century --- Brown, William Wells --- Criticism and interpretation --- Delany, Martin Robison --- Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore --- Beckwourth, James Pierson --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique.
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William Wells Brown (1814?-84) was uncertain of his own birthday because he was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. He managed to escape to Ohio, a free state, in 1834. Obtaining work on steamboats, he assisted many other slaves to escape across Lake Erie to Canada. In 1849, having achieved prominence in the American anti-slavery movement, he left for Europe, both to lecture against slavery and also to gain an education for his daughters. He stayed in Europe until 1854, since the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 had made it possible that he could be taken back into slavery if he returned. Meanwhile, he had begun to write both fiction and non-fiction, and this account of his travels in Europe, prefaced by a short biography, was published in 1852. Brown was able to return to the United States in 1854, when British friends paid for his freedom.
African Americans --- Slaves' writings, American. --- Fugitive slaves --- Travel --- Brown, William Wells, --- Great Britain --- France --- Description and travel. --- Runaway slaves --- Slavery --- Slaves --- American slaves' writings --- American literature --- Brown, W. W. --- Brown, W. Wells --- Brown, Wm. Wells --- Description and travel --- Enslaved persons --- American enslaved persons' writings --- Slaves' writings, American --- Enslaved persons' writings, American.
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