William Wells Brown

2017 Reprint of 1853 Edition. First published in December 1853, "Clotel" was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves. The story begins with the auction of his mistress, here called Currer, and their two daughters,...

Geoffrey Sanborn's edition of Clotel highlights the complexity of the novel's composition and its place in 19th-century print and performance culture. Author: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 1554812895ISBN-13: 9781554812899Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/02/2016Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60dAbout the Author Geoffrey Sanborn...

This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." It is a tragic mulatto story about...

This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." It is a tragic mulatto story about...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Author: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 1164748947ISBN-13: 9781164748946Publisher: Kessinger PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2010Pages: 278Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 6.00h x 9.02w x 0.75dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 9.8Point Value: 14Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 50669 / Clotel: Or, the President's Daughter

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Author: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 173170044XISBN-13: 9781731700445Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2018Pages: 154Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Author: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 1731700458ISBN-13: 9781731700452Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2018Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves. The story begins with the auction of his mistress, here called Currer, and their two daughters, Clotel and Althesa. The Virginian...

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown about Clotel and her sister, fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. Brown, who escaped from slavery in 1834 at the age of 20, published the book...

MORE than two hundred years have elapsed since the first cargo of slaves was landed on the banks of the James River, in the colony of Virginia, from the West coast of Africa. From the introduction of slaves in 1620, down to the period...

Author: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 3368316907ISBN-13: 9783368316907Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2022Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.50d

Author: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 3368316915ISBN-13: 9783368316914Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2022Pages: 220Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Reproduction of the original: Clotel; or, The President s Daughter by William Wells BrownAuthor: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 3734084881ISBN-13: 9783734084881Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2019Pages: 126Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.30d

Reproduction of the original: Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States by William Wells BrownAuthor: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 3734085055ISBN-13: 9783734085055Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2019Pages: 106Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 9.8Point Value: 14Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 50669 / Clotel:...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have...

Author: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 3368317628ISBN-13: 9783368317621Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/23/2022Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.43d

William Wells Brown (circa 1814 - November 6, 1884) was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States. Born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near the town of Mount Sterling, Brown escaped to Ohio in 1834 at the...

This book "" Illustrated Edition of the Life and Escape of Wm. Wells Brown; From American Slavery Written by Himself "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation...

The culmination of William Wells Brown's long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown's search for a home in a land of slavery and racism. Brown (1814-84), a prolific and celebrated abolitionist and writer often recognized as the first African American...

Originally published in 1847, William W. Brown offers a first-person narrative that details his enslavement and the daring escape that ultimately led to his freedom. It's a captivating tale and testament to the perseverance and strength of the human spirit. In this narrative, William...

In this autobiography, published in 1847, William Wells Brown details his life of slavery in Missouri. He describes in horrid detail the punishments and tortures doled out on a daily basis on the farm where he was kept captive. Brown's journey through various owners...

William Wells Brown (circa 1814 - November 6, 1884) was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States. Born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near the town of Mount Sterling, Brown escaped to Ohio in 1834 at the...

I WAS born in Lexington, Ky. The man who stole me as soon as I was born, recorded the births of all the infants which he claimed to be born his property, in a book which he kept for that purpose. My mother's name...

I WAS born in Lexington, Ky. The man who stole me as soon as I was born, recorded the births of all the infants which he claimed to be born his property, in a book which he kept for that purpose. My mother's name...

By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it one of the fastest-selling antislavery tracts of its time. The book's popularity can be attributed both to the...

The "Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself", is a memoir of William Wells Brown published in 1847, which became a bestseller across the United States, second only to Frederick Douglass' slave narrative memoir. Born into slavery in Montgomery County,...

Fling out the Anti-slavery flag On every swelling breeze; And let its folds wave o'er the land, And o'er the raging seas, Till all beneath the standard sheet, With new allegiance bow.Author: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 1162687940ISBN-13: 9781162687940Publisher: Kessinger PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2010Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize:...

Am I not a man and brother? Ought I not, then, to be free? Sell me not one to another, Take not thus my liberty. Christ our Saviour, Christ our Saviour, Died for me as well as thee.Author: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 1515344894ISBN-13: 9781515344896Publisher: Createspace...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

THE calumniators and traducers of the Negro are to be found, mainly, among two classes. The first and most relentless are those who have done them the greatest injury, by being instrumental in their enslavement and consequent degradation. They delight to descant upon the...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.Author: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 3375005342ISBN-13: 9783375005344Publisher: Salzwasser-VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2022Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.66d

"The Black man: his antecedents, his genius, and his achievements was originally published in 1865"--Title page verso.Author: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 1602066760ISBN-13: 9781602066762Publisher: Cosimo ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2007Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d

William Wells Brown (circa 1814 - November 6, 1884) was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States. Born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near the town of Mount Sterling, Brown escaped to Ohio in 1834 at the...

Author: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 1484010558ISBN-13: 9781484010556Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2013Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.66d

At the age of 20, William Wells Brown escaped a life of slavery and found freedom on the banks of the Ohio River. He became an ardent abolitionist and a prolific writer. This play, published in 1858, may very well be the first piece...

The first play published by an African-American, this comic 1858 melodrama about two slaves who secretly marry explores the racial tensions between North and South in the years just before the Civil War. With its mix of action, comedy, social commentary and an authenticity...

The first play published by an African-American, this comic 1858 melodrama about two slaves who secretly marry explores the racial tensions between North and South in the years just before the Civil War. With its mix of action, comedy, social commentary and an authenticity...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

The Narrative of William W. Brown a Fugitive Slave is a classic American slave biography by William Wells Brown. 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...

This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.Author: William Wells BrownISBN-10: 1461057256ISBN-13:...

The Narrative of William W. Brown ranks alongside Frederick Douglass' memoirs as an influential force in the abolition movement and a lasting testimonial to the injustice of slavery. The simple, straightforward style of Brown's Narrative offers a sincere and moving account of life in...

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...

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...

This documents the participation of both free blacks and slaves during the Civil War, as well as a background of African American participation in the Revolution and War of 1812. From the preface: "Feeling anxious to preserve for future reference an account of the...

This documents the participation of both free blacks and slaves during the Civil War, as well as a background of African American participation in the Revolution and War of 1812. From the preface: "Feeling anxious to preserve for future reference an account of the...

The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for...