William Wells Brown Audiobook by Ezra Greenspan

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1639 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: William Wells Brown Subtitle: An African-American Life Author: Ezra Greenspan Narrator: Mirron Willis Format: Unabridged Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins Language: English Release date: 12-22-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Born into slavery in Kentucky, raised on the Western frontier on the farm adjacent to Daniel Boones, rented out in adolescence to a succession of steamboat captains on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the young man known as Sandy reinvented himself as William Wells Brown after escaping to freedom. He lifted himself out of illiteracy and soon became an innovative, widely admired, and hugely popular speaker on antislavery circuits (both American and British) and went on to write the earliest African American works in a plethora of genres: travelogue, novel (the now canonized Clotel), printed play, and history. He also practiced medicine, ran for office, and campaigned for black uplift, temperance, and civil rights. Ezra Greenspans masterful work, elegantly written and rigorously researched, sets Browns life in the richly rendered context of his times, creating a fascinating portrait of an inventive writer who dared to challenge the racial orthodoxies and explore the racial complexities of nineteenth-century America.