My Southern Home or, The South and Its People-William Wells Brown
From Boys Life of Booker T. Washington · 7:05:34
Show by Walter Clinton Jackson
My Southern Home or, The South and Its People by William Wells Brown.William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never acknowledged his paternity. Brown escaped slavery at about the age of 20. For many years he worked as a steam boatman and as a conductor for the Underground Railroad in Buffalo, New York. In 1843, he became a lecturer for the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, and was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass. Brown went to Europe in 1849 to encourage British support for the anti-slavery movement in the United States. He remained there until 1854 when British abolitionists purchased his freedom. Soon afterward, he returned to the United States to continue his work in the abolitionist movement.Featured on Boys Life of Booker T. Washington.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.
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