As nearly all of its reviewers pointed out, Clotel was an audience-minded performance, an effort to capitalize on the post--Uncle Tom's Cabin "mania" for abolitionist fiction in Great Britain, where William Wells Brown lived between 1849...

"Clotel; or, The President's Daughter" von William Wells Brown ist ein bedeutendes Werk der afroamerikanischen Literatur und gilt als der erste Roman eines afroamerikanischen Autors. Der 1853 veröffentlichte Roman erzählt die fiktive...

Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown's The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster's The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century...

Reproduction of the original. von Brown, William Wells