Annie Turbo Malone And 9 Other Forgotten Names In Black History We’re Grateful For
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Ashley McDonough
Williams Wells Brown
Before Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison and James Baldwin, there was Williams Wells Brown, the first Black male novelist ever. Born to an enslaved woman and her master, Brown was deemed a “mulatto,” a term for biracial individuals used heavily at the time. After escaping slavery, Brown became a public abolitionist and writer, using his words to speak against the system. He is best known for his most controversial work entitled The President’s Daughter, which shares the fictional struggle of the biracial descendants of former president Thomas Jefferson.
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