The travels of William Wells Brown : including The narrative of William Wells Brown, a fugitive slave, and The American fugitive in Europe, sketches of places and people abroad

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The travels of William Wells Brown : including The narrative of William Wells Brown, a fugitive slave, and The American fugitive in Europe, sketches of places and people abroad

edited by Paul Jefferson

(Early black writers series)

Edinburgh University Press, 1991

  • : pbk

タイトル別名

The travels of William Wells Brown

The narrative of William Wells Brown, a fugitive slave

The American fugitive in Europe

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Reprint (1st work). Originally published: 2nd ed., enl. Boston : Anti-slavery Office, 1848

Reprint (2nd work). Originally published: Boston : John P. Jewett, 1855

Includes bibliographical references

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内容説明

This is the story of two trips by a fugitive slave. One of the dramatic and poignant journey of a humiliated slave up the Mississippi to the North, into freedom. The second is a glorious voyage to Europe of the same man, now an elegant and eloquent ambassador of the abolitionists, who hobnobs with writers like Victor Hugo and moves freely in high society. His autobiography, "Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave" (1845), chronicles Brown's life in bondage-disclosing aspects of slavery more various and distrubing than even the narrative of his contemporary Frederick Douglas and his pilgrim's progress north to freedom. This book is one of the most significant works of slave literature. Ten years later Brown published "The American Fugitive in Europe - Sketches of Places and People Abroad", a travel report written in the style of the best European journalism. Both are included in this volume. Both the autobiography and the travel account are classic examples of 19th century first-person prose narratives.

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