African American Heritage Week: William Wells Brown

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This week, I'm dedicating my posts to African American heritage, and I'll be highlighting some of the figures from American history that you may not have heard of. The first of these figures is the controversial novelist, William Wells Brown. Brown was born into slavery in either 1814 or 1815, to a Kentucky-based slave named Elizabeth and George W. Higgins, a white planter. His father did ... ...more

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