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William Wells Brown

Born

in Lexington, KY, The United States

November 06, 1814

Died

November 06, 1884

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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William Wells Brown was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North in 1834, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer. His novel Clotel (1853) is considered the first novel written by an African American; it was published in London, where he was living at the time. Brown was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama. He has a school named after him in Lexington, Kentucky and was among the first writers inducted to the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.

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Average rating: 3.76 · 3,387 ratings · 349 reviews · 142 distinct works • Similar authors

	Clotel: or, The President's Daughter 3.62 avg rating — 2,395 ratings — published 1853 — 394 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave 4.22 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 1847 — 177 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom by William Wells Brown, John Ernest (Editor) 3.59 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2000 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Fugitive Slave to Free Man: The Autobiographies of William Wells Brown (Volume 1) by William Wells Brown (editor), William L. Andrews (Editor) 4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863) 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1863 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1852 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	William Wells Brown: A Reader by William Wells Brown, Ezra Greenspan (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Southern Home; or, The South and Its People 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1880 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anthology of African American Literature 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clotel & Other Writings 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing States, yet no part of our slave-holding country, is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants, than St. Louis. It”
― William Wells Brown, The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave

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“WITH the growing population of slaves in the Southern States of America, there is a fearful increase of half whites, most of whose fathers are slaveowners and their mothers slaves.”
― William Wells Brown, Clotel: or, The President's Daughter

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“After selling out this cargo of human flesh”
― William Wells Brown, Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave: Written by Himself

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What shall we read in October, 2022? Books published in or before 1990.

Giant, by Edna Ferber

20 votes 34.5%

In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, by Ellen Gilchrist

11 votes 19.0%

Mules and Men, by Zora Neale Hurston

8 votes 13.8%

The Widow's Trial, by John Ehle

8 votes 13.8%

Clotel: or, The President's Daughter, by William Wells Brown

7 votes 12.1%

The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South, by Eli N. Evans

4 votes 6.9%

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