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SLAVE NARRATIVES
William Wells Brown's Narrative of a Fugitive Slave
William Wells Brown was a
prominent author, lecturer and
historian of the mid-nineteenth
century. Born into slavery and
eventually gaining his freedom,
he used his experiences from his
time in bondage to establish a
career in writing and
lecturing. The increased
popularity of slave narratives
during the nineteenth century
stemmed from the fact that
readers could study first-hand
accounts of the horrors of
slavery and, in turn, created a powerful tool for
abolitionists.
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