William Sanders Scarborough, an the African American ex-slave that wrote a Greek textbook. Portrait of William Sanders Scarborough by C. M. Bell, 1903 / Public DomainWilliam Sanders Scarborough was an African-American, emancipated slave who authored a Greek textbook. The textbook offered Greek to English and English to Greek language practice as well as exercises on Greek grammar and vocabulary building. An ex-slave writes a Greek textbookWilliam Sanders Scarborough’s ‘First Lessons in Greek’. The text included Greek to English and English to Greek exercises to encourage the practice of Greek grammar and vocabulary building.