Author: William Wells Brown

As nearly all of its reviewers pointed out, Clotel was an audience-minded performance, an effort to capitalize on the postUncle Toms Cabin mania fo...

As nearly all of its reviewers pointed out, Clotel was an audience-minded performance, an effort to capitalize on the postUncle Toms Cabin mania fo...

As nearly all of its reviewers pointed out, Clotel was an audience-minded performance, an effort to capitalize on the postUncle Toms Cabin mania fo...

Born into slavery, Clotel is a white-passing woman who conceals her identity and uses a disguise to infiltrate a plantation to rescue her loved one...

Originally published in 1847, William W. Brown offers a first-person narrative that details his enslavement and the daring escape that ultimately l...