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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Biography'A groundbreaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African-American writer of the nineteenth century.
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Greenspan tells the story of Brown (1814-84), born a slave who escaped at age 19, joined the Underground Railroad, and became the leading black lecturer for the Boston-based radical abolitionist organization led by William Lloyd Garrison. At the time of his death he was the leading African American man of letters, but his reputation was buried by the wave of Jim Crow reaction and the reinstitutionalization of racism. Among the chapters are antecedents in black and white, the road to reform, London as the biggest stage, upon an experimental voyage, the black man at war, and his southern home revisited. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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