#williamwellsbrown #abolitionist #novelist #playwright #historian #TheBlackMan #Clotel William Wells Brown was born into slavery in 1814 in Montgomery county Kentucky. He freed himself in 1834 by escaping to Ohio. He settled in Boston where he started doing work as an abolitionist, he also became a prolific writer there. Although he has a rather interesting story that I'll cover later, like his beef with Frederick Douglas, right now I'm going to focus on a book that he wrote in 1863. The title of this book is of interest to me due to a meme that a lot of misguided black people in America pass around. According to this meme, "we" never called ourselves black prior to the 1960s. Yet he has a book called "The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements". Some of you misguided clowns have also said that no one black person was writing on the history of black people before Melville J. Herskovits and Franz Boas. The former wasn't born (1898) when Brown started writing and the latter was 5 when "The Black Man" was pusblished. Get these conscious clowns out of here. We have to stop letting good sounding bullshit fly among us. Prior to the first book that I mentioned William Wells Brown had wrote the fictional novel "Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States" in 1853. It was about Clotel and her sister, fictional daughters of Thomas Jefferson. Thomas and Sally anyone...Brown had to publish this book while in London. He was there on a lecture tour in 1849, then the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 came about, and he decided to stay in London with his two daughters. Even though he was living in the North he still would've been at risk if he went back to the US. In 1854 a British couple purchased his freedom and he came back to the States with his daughter. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzRBjI0BJcb/?igshid=1oosm1v7xnntd
