William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown
William Wells Brownwas a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States. Born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near the town of Mount Sterling, Brown escaped to Ohio in 1834 at the age of 20. He settled in Boston, where he worked for abolitionist causes and became a prolific writer. His novel Clotel, considered the first novel written by an African American, was published in London, where he resided at the time; it was later...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
CountryUnited States of America
William Wells Brown quotes about
Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.