Clotel; or, The President's Daughter. Illustrated

William Wells Brown  was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States. Born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near the town of Mount Sterling, Brown escaped to Ohio in 1834 at the age of 19.  Brown was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama. In 1858 he became the first published African-...