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WRITERS > antislavery lecturer, novelist, playwright > William Wells Brown
The duty I...
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The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.
Source: Letter to his former master, Enoch Price; in The Liberator, 14 Dec 1849.
-- William Wells Brown, ( 1815-1884), US antislavery lecturer, novelist, playwright; His Narrative, the story of his escape from slavery; is a classic; first black author to write a novel, Clotel, and play, The Escape.