My Southern Home or, The South and Its People

MY SOUTHERN HOME

William Wells Brown

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The South and its People

My Southern Home or, The South and Its People

by William Wells Brown (1814-1884)

William Wells Brown was born a slave near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother
was a Slave; his father was a white man who never acknowledged his
paternity. Brown escaped slavery at about the age of 20 and for many years
he worked as a steam boatman and as a conductor for the Underground
Railroad in New York. In 1843 he became a lecturer for the Western New
York Anti-Slavery Society, and was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass.
Brown went to Europe in 1849 to encourage British support for the anti-
slavery movement in the United States. He remained there until 1854 when
British abolitionists purchased his freedom. Soon afterward, he returned to
the United States to continue his work in the abolitionist movement.

Throughout his life he wrote several books, including his autobiography,
Three Years In Europe; Or, Places | Have Seen And People I Have Met, Clotel,
and The Rising Son; or, The Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored
Race, among others. In his final work My Southern Home: Or, The South
And Its People, he reflects on his life and his experiences as a slave from a
post-emancipation perspective. It is a review of his travels through several
southern states during the time of slavery, including his observations and
commentary on the social and political relationships between whites and
African Americans of that period.

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