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Born into slavery in Kentucky, brought up on the Western frontier on the plantation next to Daniel Boone's, "rented" out in adolescence to a succession of steamboat captains on the Mississippi and Missouri streams, the son known as "Sandy" reinvented himself as "William Wells" Dark brown after escaping to independence. He lifted himself out of illiteracy and soon became an innovative, widely admired, and greatly popular presenter on antislavery circuits (both North american and Uk) and went on to write the earliest BLACK works in various styles: travelogue, novel (the now canonized Clotel), paper play, and background. He also employed treatments, ran for office, and campaigned for dark-colored uplift, temperance, and civil privileges. Ezra Greenspan's masterful work, elegantly written and rigorously researched, places Brown's life in the richly rendered framework of his times, creating a fascinating portrait of inventive copy writer who dared to issue the racial orthodoxies and explore the racial complexities of nineteenth-century America.
