04383nam 2200805Ia 450 991096022450332120251117094454.097988908432589781469602882146960288197808078696040807869600(CKB)2550000000064597(EBL)3039498(SSID)ssj0000638932(PQKBManifestationID)11401924(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000638932(PQKBWorkID)10598966(PQKB)10984930(StDuBDS)EDZ0000243887(OCoLC)933516693(MdBmJHUP)muse48752(Au-PeEL)EBL797786(CaPaEBR)ebr10511437(CaONFJC)MIL930881(OCoLC)763157113(MiAaPQ)EBC797786(EXLCZ)99255000000006459720111126d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNarrative of William W. Brown, anAmerican slave /written by himself, William Wells BrownDocSouth Books ed.Chapel Hill, NC University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library distributed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press20111 online resource (111 p.)Prepared using the transcribed electronic text used in the "Documenting the American South" (DocSouth) Project.Reprint of 3rd British ed.: London, C. Gilpin, 1849.Originally published as: Narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitve slave ; Boston, Ant-slavery office, 1847.9798890843265 9780807869598 0807869597 ""About This Edition""; ""PREFACE""; ""NARRATIVE.""; ""CHAPTER I.""; ""CHAPTER II.""; ""CHAPTER III.""; ""CHAPTER IV.""; ""CHAPTER V.""; ""CHAPTER VI.""; ""CHAPTER VII.""; ""CHAPTER VIII.""; ""CHAPTER IX.""; ""CHAPTER X.""; ""CHAPTER XI.""; ""CHAPTER XII.""; ""FROM THE LIBERTY BELL OF 1848.""; ""THE AMERICAN SLAVE-TRADE.""; ""FLIGHT OF THE BONDMAN.""; ""DEDICATED TO WILLIAM W. BROWN,""; "" And sung by the Hutchinsons.""; "" FREEDOM'S STAR.""; "" LAMENT OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE.""; "" APPENDIX.""; ""TESTIMONIALS""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 slavesUnited StatesBiographyAfrican AmericansBiographyEnslaved personsMissouriBiographyPlantation lifeMissouriHistory19th centurySlaveryMissouriHistory19th centuryEnslaved persons' writings, AmericanMissouriSourcesFugitive slavesAfrican AmericansEnslaved personsPlantation lifeHistorySlaveryHistoryEnslaved persons' writings, American306.3/62092306.362092Brown William Wells1814?-1884.603560University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Documenting the American South (Project).University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Library.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910960224503321Narrative of William W. Brown, anAmerican slave4478868UNINA01909nam 2200205zu 450 99669534830331620260108110635.0(CKB)37912355200041(UnM)99831323(EXLCZ)993791235520004120250319|1660uuuu || |engur|||||||||||Former Ages Never Heard Of, And After Ages Will Admire. Or, A Brief Review Of The Most Materiall Parliamentary Transactions : Beginning November 3. 1640. Wherein The Remarkeable Passages Both Of Their Civil And Martiall Affaires, Are Continued Unto The Dissolving Of The Parliament, Aprill 23. 1659. Published As A Breviary, Leading All Along Successively, As They Fell Out In Their Severall Years: So That If Any Man Will Be Informed Of Any Remarkeable Passage, He May Turne To The Year, And So See In Some Measure, In What Month Thereof It Was Accomplished. For Information Of Such As Are Altogether Ignorant Of The Rise And Progresse Of These Times. A Work Worthy To Be Kept In Record, And Communicated To PosterityProQuest, UMI1660Vicars1883362BOOK996695348303316Former Ages Never Heard Of, And After Ages Will Admire. Or, A Brief Review Of The Most Materiall Parliamentary Transactions : Beginning November 3. 1640. Wherein The Remarkeable Passages Both Of Their Civil And Martiall Affaires, Are Continued Unto The Dissolving Of The Parliament, Aprill 23. 1659. Published As A Breviary, Leading All Along Successively, As They Fell Out In Their Severall Years: So That If Any Man Will Be Informed Of Any Remarkeable Passage, He May Turne To The Year, And So See In Some Measure, In What Month Thereof It Was Accomplished. For Information Of Such As Are Altogether Ignorant Of The Rise And Progresse Of These Times. A Work Worthy To Be Kept In Record, And Communicated To Posterity4505051UNISA