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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.

Born into slavery in Kentucky, raised on the Western frontier on the farm adjacent to Daniel Boone’s, “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…

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Awards Social Sciences Biography History Nonfiction African Americans African Americans - General & Miscellaneous African American Biography & Memoir Peoples & Cultures - Biography Literary Biography United States History African American Biography American Literary Biography 18th Century United States History - General & Miscellaneous African American Literary Biography African American Political & Historical Biography 19th Century American Authors - Literary Biography 18th Century American History - General & Miscellaneous African Americans - Law, Politics, & Government African American Authors - Literary Biography Authors, American->19th century->Biography Brown, William Wells (1815-1884)African American authors->Biography 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Previous Finalists - National Book Critics Circle Awards National Book Critics Circle Awards

William Wells Brown: An African American Life

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