William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings (Library of

William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings (Library of America)

Born a slave and kept functionally illiterate until he escaped at age nineteen, William Wells Brown (1814â€“1884) refashioned himself first as an agent of the Underground Railroad, then as an antislavery activist and self-taught orator, and finally as the author of a series of landmark works that made him, like Frederick Douglass, a foundational figure of African American literature. His controversial novel Clotel; or, the Presidentâ€™s Daughter (1853), a fictionalized account of the lives and struggles of Thomas Jeffersonâ€™s black daughters and granddaughters, is the first novel written by an African American. This Library of America volume brings it together with Brownâ€™s other groundbreaking works: Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself (1847), his first published book and an immediate bestseller, which describes his childhood, life in slavery, and eventual escape; later memoirs charting his life during the Civil War and Reconstruction; the first play (The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom, 1858), travelogue (The American Fugitive in
Europe, 1855), and history (The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements, 1862) written by an African American; and eighteen speeches and public letters from the 1840s, 50s, and 60s, many collected here for the first time.

Country	USA
Author	William Wells Brown
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Brown, William Wells/ Greenspan, Ezra (EDT)
EAN	9781598532913
Edition	First Edition
ISBN	159853291X
IsEligibleForTradeIn	1
Label	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	1042
PublicationDate	2014-02-20
Publisher	Library of America
ReleaseDate	2014-02-20
Studio	Library of America

William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings (Library of America)