William Wells Brown, “Ira Aldridge”

The War Before the War: Andrew Delbanco on fugitive slaves and the fragility of the American Republic

How antislavery writings reconnect us with one of the most crucial themes in American literary history

The Escape, first published play by an African American, leaps to the New York City stage

Ezra Greenspan on William Wells Brown: “The most rivetingly inventive, entertaining black writer of his era”