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Until he was twenty-one years old William Wells Brown could neither read nor write, which makes this work all the more remarkable, dramatic and moving. Brown based his novel on the oft-repeated claim that Thomas Jefferson, who wrote magnificently about human freedom while continuing to buy, work, and sell slaves, had fathered many slave children. According to the legend, one of these children, a beautiful young girl, was later sold at auction. Brown...
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