In From Fugitive Slave to Free Man, two of Brown's best-known writings, Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave. Written by Himself and My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People, are reprinted together with an expanded introduction by William L. Andrews. Taken together, both of the books included in this volume provide fascinating contrasts, especially in their depictions of slavery, and illustrate the…
Author: William Wells Brown · Original publisher: Mentor Books (New American Library), 1993 (original edition, edited by William L. Andrews); expanded edition, University of Missouri Press, 2003 (later/standard edition)
Tier 1 — Full text hosted on this page. Public domain: first published 1847 (Narrative of William W. Brown) and 1880 (My Southern Home); full text of the original works freely available at Project Gutenberg and Documenting the American South (UNC). (Our catalog record is a later edition.) The full text is held in fulltexts/ as `9375-from-fugitive-slave-to-free-man-the-autobiograph.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).
