The ante-bellum period was an age of racism and an age of suffering. The author of the account entitled "A Narrative" was William Wells Brown. Brown was one of seven children; however, no two of them were of the same father. Brown's mother was a woman by the name of Elizabeth, and his father was a Mr. George Higgins: a white relative of Brown's first owner. William Wells Brown was born in Lexington, Kentucky. While …showed first 75 words of 996 total…

…showed last 75 words of 996 total…this man personally, his word choice was intriguing as well as the subject matter riveting. I learned much while reading the narrative and writing the paper about slavery in the United States. While slavery is wrong, it was once a part of the daily lives of a majority of Americans, through the accounts of men like Brown, we can learn the truth about the lives of those that shaped the history of this great nation.