Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library.
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| ISBN: | 9780807869604
0807869600
9781469602882
1469602881
0807869597
9780807869598
9780807869598
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | 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.
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| Summary: | By 1849, this book 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 details his failed attempt to escape with his mother; after their capture, they were sold to new masters. A subsequent escape attempt succeeds.
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