"The Antebellum South: The Slave Stories of William Wells Brown"

The ante-bellum period was an age of racism and an age of suffering. The author of the account entitled "A Narrative" was William Wells Brown. Brown was one of seven children; however, no two of them were of the same father. Brown's mother was a woman by the name of Elizabeth, and his father was a Mr. George Higgins: a white relative of Brown's first owner. William Wells Brown was born in Lexington, Kentucky. While his birth date was unbeknownst to him, the event was recorded in his master's records.
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