Josephine Brown (born 1839), the youngest child of abolitionist and author William Wells Brown, wrote a biography of her father, "Biography of an American Bondman, By His Daughter". Brown wrote the first ten chapters of the narrative while studying in France, as a means of satisfying her classmates' curiosity about her father. After returning to America, she discovered that the narrative of her father’s life, written by him, and published a few years before, was out of print and thus produced the rest of the chapters that constitute "Biography of an American Bondman". Brown was a qualified teacher but she was also extremely active as an advocate against slavery.