Writing in the middle of the Civil War, William Wells Brown sets out to refute the slanders of natural inferiority used to defend slavery. After a memoir of his own life, he gives sketches of dozens of Black men and women of genius and courage, among them Benjamin Banneker, Nat Turner, Madison Washington and leaders of the Haitian Revolution.
A pioneering work of African American biography by the first African American novelist, still powerful as argument and record. Download the free EPUB.