William Wells Brown

Clotel

originally published:

1853

We offered this copy of the first American hardcover edition in our Catalog 81.

awards:

  • Blockson101(1853)

reference info

bio notes:
born: 11/6/1814
died: 11/6/1884
born as: William Wells Brown

American writer who is considered to be the firs African-American to publish a novel. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

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