William Wells Brown Thesis

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Brown provided a sense of ambition and protection for the slaves in the abominable institution, which illustrated a tendency to not give up liberation. Moreover, Brown symbolized in his writing irresistible literary stylistics that were persuasive and paradoxical to mixed race individuals and to the nature of slave families. In the Narrative of William Wells Brown, an American Slave, Brown’s words in the narrative expressed an act of resoluteness, pity, remorse, and grief as he stated, “Experience has taught me that nothing can be more heart-rending than for one to see a dear and beloved mother or sister tortured, and to hear their cries, and not be able to render them assistance” (16). Brown was characterized as a tenacious man who escaped