In this autobiography, published in 1847, William Wells Brown details his life of slavery in Missouri. He describes in horrid detail the punishments and torture

William Wells Brown spent the first twenty years of his life mainly in St. Louis and the surrounding areas working as a house servant, field hand, a tavern keep

Slavery and Class in the American South reveals how work, family, and connections that made for socioeconomic differences among the enslaved of the South are cr