Richard Woodman’s etching of William Wells Brown, which served as the frontispiece for Brown’s Sketches of Places and People Abroad (1855).
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…
William Wells Brown
Artist
Date
1855
From
Sketches of Places and People Abroad
Image Size
1200 x 1238