William Wells Brown

Williams Wells Brown was the first African-American to publish a novel, a play, a travel book, a military study of his people and a study of black sociology. Throughout his life he was committed to the abolition of slavery.

William Wells Brown was brown in Lexington, Kentucky in 1815. His father was a white plantation owner and his mother was a black slave. Brown grew up with his father in the plantation, brown held many jobs which provided him knowledge about slavery  in the south and that's what lead him to his writing. Brown was a slave in the slave, he escaped in January 1835. Williams Wells Brown was important to the underground railroad he help many slaves escape to Canada. During his escape from the south he had help from a Quaker named Wells Brown. He Adopted his name when he became a free man. Brown married Elizabeth Schooner a free black women. Brown wife had three children together after moving to buffalo.
After his escape he taught him self to read and write Williams Brown became an active abolitionist and activist in the anti-slavery movement while he was working for a journalist for the abolitionist cause. Williams Wells Brown continued to participate as a conductor in the underground railroad also spoke publicly on abolition, women rights, peace and temperance.
William Wells Brown made many Accomplishments as a African American and also was a slave in the south but that didn't stop him from anything !

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