Two Biographies by African-American Women

by William L. Andrews (Introduction)

Overview

The book contains the biography of an American bondman William Wells Brown, which was written by his daughter Josephine Brown. It also presents the precedent-setting biography of Martin R. Delany, which helped to introduce an analytical approach to biography writing in African-American letters. An unabashed success story of one man's military career during the Civil War and his subsequent work in the Freedman's Bureau during Reconstruction, this book, written at a crucial juncture in American history, creates a vivid portrait of a man who comes to represent the voice of national union, mediation of conflict between blacks and whites in the South, and a fair and equitable democratic society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195062045
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/18/1991
Series:	The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 6.88(h) x 1.57(d)