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Brown, William Wells, 1815-1884 My Southern Home: Or, The South and Its People

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09932 Author/Creator: Brown, William Wells, 1815-1884 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Book Date: 1880 Pagination: 1 v. Order a Copy

One book entitled "My Southern Home: Or, The South and Its People" written by William Wells Brown and published in 1880. Brown is a noted abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. This book is broken into twenty nine chapters and covers events from Brown's life as an enslaved person as well as events surrounding the emancipation and life after. The book focuses on relations between the white and black people in the south pre, during and after the Civil War.

Brown, William Wells, 1815-1884

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