Frontispiece portrait from Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave (1847).
Featured on PDR in the essay William Wells Brown, Wildcat Banker
A cottage industry, yes, but a barbershop bank? Ross Bullen plots how a story told by William Wells Brown — novelist, historian, playwright, physician, and escaped slave — circulated, first through his own works, and then abroad, as a parable of American banking gone bad.
Also appearing in the essay…
Frontispiece Portrait of William Wells Brown
Date
1847
From
Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave
Image Size
900 x 1109