Elizabeth Josephine Brown was the daughter and biographer of escaped African-American slave William Wells Brown and his first wife Elizabeth Schooner.
12 Facts About Josephine Brown
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However, Josephine was forthcoming about details of abuse and mistreatment which Wells Brown's account does not include, and openly addressed the problems of mulatto slaves.
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In 1834, Brown escaped to the north and settled in Cleveland, Ohio.
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The Josephine Brown family were definitely back in Buffalo in time for the 1840 Federal Census.
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Josephine Brown retained custody of his daughters, and moved to Boston.
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In 1849, Wells Josephine Brown was invited to attend the International Peace Congress in Paris, to speak against slavery.
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In 1851 Clarissa and Josephine Brown briefly joined their father in London, before both girls were placed at a boarding school in Calais, France.
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In December 1853, Josephine Brown passed her qualifying examinations, and accepted a position as school mistress of the East Plumstead School in Woolwich, England.
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In 1854, Wells Josephine Brown's freedom was purchased from his enslaver by abolitionist supporters, and he returned to the United States.
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In 1855, Josephine Brown chose to return to America, escorted on the transatlantic voyage by abolitionist Horace Greeley.
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Josephine Brown joined her father in Boston, working with him for a time as an antislavery lecturer in New England.
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Concerned that his biography was no longer in print, Josephine Brown published Biography of an American Bondman to preserve his legacy.