William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel by ...
William Wells Brown, the subject of this narrative, was born a slave in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1...
Born a slave and kept functionally illiterate until he escaped at age nineteen, William Wells Bro...
The first novel by an African-American, this dramatic tale revolves around the fate of a child fa...
The Narrative of William W. Brown ranks alongside Frederick Douglass' memoirs as an influential f...
The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at th...
Thirteen years ago, I came to your door, a weary fugitive from chains and stripes. I was a strang...
First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jef...
This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult liv...
Three powerful African-American classics of strength and determination include The Heroic Slave, ...
Fantastic Universe started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the b...
This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult liv...