MS
My Southern Home or, The South and Its People
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…
More audiobooks
All audiobooksTY
7h 37mThree Years In EuropeCO
5h 31mClotel, or, The President's DaughterHO
10h 4mHistory of the Great American Fortunes Vol. 2CS
15h 33mCeltic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban, Volume 1 History and EthnologyME
2h 56mMother Earth, Vol. 1, No. 11, January 1907CC
3h 5mCape Cod Is a Number of ThingsBB
1h 44mBarrier boundary of the Mediterranean basin and its northern breaches as factors in historyCO
8h 20mCivilisation of the Period of the Renaissance in Italy, Vol. 1IU
17h 14mIreland Under the Tudors, Volume 31A
3h 8m1066 and All ThatCO
15h 12mCampaigns of the Civil WarME
2h 44mMother Earth, Vol. 1, No. 10, December 1906
0:00 / 0:00