Written by William Wells Brown

The Black Man - His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements

by William Wells Brown

The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements is a biography of African-American. The calumniators and traducers of the Negro are to be found, mainly, among two classes. The first and most relentless are those who have done them the greatest injury, by being instrumental in their enslavement and consequent degradation. They delig..

The Escape

by William Wells Brown

This play was written for my own amusement, and not with the remotest thought that it would ever be seen by the public eye. I read it privately, however, to a circle of my friends, and through them was invited to read it before a Literary Society. Since then, the Drama has been given in various parts of the country. By the earnest solicitation of s..