Reproduction of the original: Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Metby Wi...

Originally published in 1853, Clotel is the first novel by an African American. William Wells Bro...

Clotel

Thirteen years ago, I came to your door, a weary fugitive from chains and stripes. I was a strang...

Reproduction of the original: Clotelle, or the Colored Heroineby William Wells Brown

Reproduction of the original: Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern Statesby William Wells Brown

William Wells Brown, who is credited with being the first African American novelist, crafts a gro...

Born into slavery, Clotel is a white-passing woman who conceals her identity and uses a disguise ...

MORE than two hundred years have elapsed since the first cargo of slaves was landed on the banks ...

William Brown escaped from slavery as a child. Brown was still considered a slave at the time of ...

Reproduction of the original: Clotel; or, The President¿s Daughter by William Wells Brown

The culmination of William Wells Brown's long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Br...