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“This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.”

Quote by William Wells Brown

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William Wells Brown

William Wells Brown, born on November 6, 1814, and died on November 6, 1884, was an American novelist. His works primarily focused on the issues of slavery and racial equality, making him one of the earliest American writers to tackle these themes in the 19th century. more

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