Two Biographies by African-American Women

The book contains the biography of an American bondman William Wells Brown which was written by his daughter Josephine Brown. It also presents the precedent-setting biography of Martin R. Delany which helped to introduce an analytical approach to biography writing in African-American letters. An unabashed success story of one man''s military career during the Civil War and his subsequent work in the Freedman''s Bureau during Reconstruction this book written at a crucial juncture in American history creates a vivid portrait of a man who comes to represent the voice of national union mediation of conflict between blacks and whites in the South and a fair and equitable democratic society.