William Wells Brown : A Reader.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Chronology of Brown's Life and Career -- CHAPTER ONE. Writing Fugitive Slave Autobiography -- Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave -- Narrative of the Life and Escape of William Wells Brown -- CHAPTER TWO. Writing Antislavery Oratory -- A Lecture delivered before the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem -- CHAPTER THREE. Writing African American Travelogue -- Selections from The American Fugitive in Europe -- Chapter 1 [The Atlantic Crossing] -- Chapter 3 [The Paris Peace Conference] -- Chapter 17 [Visit to the Great Exhibition in London, 1851] -- Chapter 28 [Impressions of the Anglo-African Actor Joseph Jenkins] -- Chapter 32 [Return Crossing to America] -- CHAPTER FOUR. Writing African American Fiction -- Selections from Clotel -- Chapter 1, The Negro Sale -- Chapter 6, The Religious Teacher -- Chapter 22, A Ride in a Stage-Coach -- CHAPTER FIVE. Writing African American Drama -- The Escape -- CHAPTER SIX. Writing African American History -- Selections from The Black Man -- The Black Man and His Antecedents -- [Phillis Wheatley] -- [Nat Turner] -- [Frederick Douglass] -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Writing African American Civil War History -- Selections from The Negro in the American Rebellion -- Preface -- Chapter 15, Proclamation of Freedom -- Chapter 20, Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment -- Chapter 32, Injustice to Colored Troops -- Chapter 44, Caste -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Writing African American Memoir -- Selections from My Southern Home -- Chapter 1 [Antebellum Impressions and Memories] -- Chapter 2 [Plantation Stories] -- Chapter 19 [Scenes from Postbellum South] -- Chapter 22 [Religion in Postbellum Richmond] -- Chapter 23 [African American Folkways] -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P.

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