Three Years In Europe: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Three Years In Europe, credited to William Wells Brown, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Three Years In Europe, by William Wells Brown. Read by James K. White. William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave--his father a white man who never acknowledged his paternity. Brown escaped slavery at about the age of 20. For many years he worked as a steamboatman and as a conductor for the Underground Railroad in Buffalo, New York. In 1843, he became a lecturer for the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, and was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass. Brown went to Europe in 1849 to encourage British support for the anti-slavery movement in the United States. He remained there until 1854 when British abolitionists purchased his freedom. Soon afterward, he returned to the United States to continue his work in the abolitionist movement. Throughout his life, he wrote several books, including his autobiography, Clotel, and, The Rising Son; or, The Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race, among others. He was also the author of two plays. Three Years In Europe; Or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met is a series of letters that Brown wrote to certain of his friends. A few were destined for publication in The Liberator, the famed abolitionist journal published by Frederick Douglass. In the letters, Brown described his impressions while traveling across Europe, meeting with folks of different cultures and sharing his experiences as a former slave.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Three Years In Europe
• Author credits: William Wells Brown
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 7:37:18

Catalogue topics

• audio book
• non-fiction
• slavery
• south

Track guide

1. 00 - Memoir of William Wells Brown/Preface — 40:28
2. 01 - Letter I — 10:58
3. 02 - Letter II — 15:41
4. 03 - Letter III — 23:18
5. 04 - Letter IV — 16:04
6. 05 - Letter V — 12:44
7. 06 - Letter VI — 19:59
8. 07 - Letter VII — 13:00
9. 08 - Letter VIII — 28:05
10. 09 - Letter IX — 16:08
11. 10 - Letter X — 23:23
12. 11 - Letter XI — 15:08
13. 12 - Letter XII — 25:24
14. 13 - Letter XIII — 18:56
15. 14 - Letter XIV — 10:43
16. 15 - Letter XV — 15:19
17. 16 - Letter XVI — 14:35
18. 17 - Letter XVII — 15:52
19. 18 - Letter XVIII — 9:39
20. 19 - Letter XIX — 12:18
21. 20 - Letter XX — 19:21
22. 21 - Letter XXI — 30:30
23. 22 - Letter XXII — 40:38
24. 23 - Letter XXIII — 9:21

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