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January 30, 2022

William Wells Brown

January 30, 2022

William Wells Brown is considered the first African American novelist. He wrote a piece of drama, The Escape; or A Leap for Freedom on this day in 1858. It was never performed until 1971 at Emerson College in Boston.

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