William Wells Brown

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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2010
  • Latest Book:
    February 2014
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Book List in Order: 8 titles

  • Clemence, the Schoolmistress of Waveland

    According to Wikipedia: William Wells Brown (November 6, 1816 - November 6, 1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North, where he worked...

  • The Essential Works of William Wells Brown

    William Wells Brown was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer. Brown was ...

  • Clotel; Or, the President's Daughter

    Born a slave and kept functionally illiterate until he escaped at age nineteen, William Wells Brown refashioned himself first as an agent of the Underground Railroad and then as an antislavery activist and self-taught orator and author, eventually be...

  • The Anti-Slavery Harp

  • The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave

    Thirteen years ago, I came to your door, a weary fugitive from chains and stripes. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was hungry, and you fed me. Naked was I, and you clothed me. Even a name by which to be known among men, slavery had denied me....

  • Three Years in Europe

    A narrative of the life of the author of the present work has been most extensively circulated in England and America. The present memoir will, therefore, simply comprise a brief sketch of the most interesting portion of Mr. Brown's history while in ...

  • William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings

    A showcase of the extraordinary career America’s first Black novelist and pivotal figure in African American literature “It is difficult to imagine any one of his contemporaries who contributed as much or as richly to so many genres.” -...

  • Clotel: Or, the President's Daughter: a Narrative of Slave Life in the United States

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    The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving togethe...



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William Wells Brown has published 8 books.

William Wells Brown does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings, was published in February 2014.

The first book by William Wells Brown, Clemence, the Schoolmistress of Waveland, was published in March 2010.

No. William Wells Brown does not write books in series.
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