Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
William Wells Brown
Born: March 15, 1815
Died: November 6, 1884 (aged 69)
Bio: William Wells Brown was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States. Born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near the town of Mount Sterling, Brown escaped to Ohio in 1834 at the age of 20.
Known for:
- Clotel Or The President's Daughter (1853)
- My southern home
- The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom