Harriet E. Wilson
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Harriet E. Wilson was an African-American novelist. She was the first African American to publish a novel in North America.
Portrait of Harriet E. W Ilson
Original title page of Our Nig, published by George C. Rand and Avery (1859).
William Wells Brown
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William Wells Brown was an American abolitionist, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery near Mount Sterling, Kentucky, Brown escaped to Ohio in 1834 at the age of 19. He settled in Bo
Harriet E. Wilson
…1854), Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868–69), and Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette (1797). The first known novel by an African American is William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, The President's Daughter (1853), published in the United Kingdom, where he was living at the time. The critic Sven Birkerts argued that…
William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown signage highlights his life and achievements in Buffalo NY including his aid to many freedom seekers. The location in Canalside, the waterfront park, is the site of Brown's home.
Clotel, or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States
Readable pdf of The black man - his antecedents, his genius, and his achievements, published for James M. Symms & Co.