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This deftly researched and compellingly written account reminds the reader of [William Wells] Brown's power as a writer, and resituates him as both an important antiracist thinker in the Civil War era and a powerful writer who is part of the narrative of 19th-century American culture... Recommended. Choice

This deftly researched and compellingly written account reminds the reader of [William Wells] Brown's power as a writer, and resituates him as both an important antiracist thinker in the Civil War era and a powerful writer who is part of the narrative of 19th-century American culture... Recommended. Choice Should stimulate much-needed discussion on plagiarism and originality, authorship and ethics. Times Literary Supplement

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Geoffrey Sanborn is professor of English at Amherst College and has taught at Fairfield University, Williams College, and Bard College. His books include Whipscars and Tattoos: The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori; The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader; and, with Samuel Otter, Melville and Aesthetics.

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