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Hardcover The Works of William Wells Brown: Using His "Strong, Manly Voice" Book

ISBN: 0195309634

ISBN13: 9780195309638

The Works of William Wells Brown: Using His "Strong, Manly Voice"

Widely considered the first African-American novelist, William Wells Brown's (ca. 1814-1884) 1853 novel, Clotel, or the President's Daughter , chronicled the fate of the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and his black housekeeper. Yet, in his own day, Brown was perhaps more important as a rousing orator, scholar, and cultural critic. He escaped from slavery in 1834 and worked on Lake Erie steamboats in Buffalo, New York, helping slaves escape into Canada...

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