Originally published in 1853, "Clotel" is one of the first novels by an African American. In it, Brown treats the themes of gender, race and slavery in distinctive ways, highlighting the mutability of identity, as well as the abrudities and cruelties of slavery.
William Wells Brown (1814?–84) was born a slave in Kentucky, but escaped to Ohio in 1834. In 1849, having achieved prominence in the... Læs mere