Having escaped slavery and become a celebrated abolitionist lecturer, William Wells Brown sailed for Europe in 1849, and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made his return dangerous. His letters describe Dublin and the Queen’s visit, London, the Peace Congress in Paris, a soirée at the home of Alexis de Tocqueville, and the writers, reformers and places he encountered as a free man.
A pioneering work of African American travel writing by the author of Clotel. Download the free EPUB.