Cover of Clotel

Clotel

by M. Giulia Fabi, William Wells Brown

1969 245 pages eng

William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel an African-American. When the book was published, Brown himself was legally the property of someone else within the United States, having escaped from slavery in Kentucky when he was younger. In the story P…

Read online

Reader not loading? Open it on Archive.org instead.