William Wells Brown: A Reader

William Wells Brown: A Reader
ISBN-10
0820332232
ISBN-13
9780820332239
Series
William Wells Brown
Category
Social Science
Pages
448
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Author
William Wells Brown

Description

"Brown wrote extensively as a journalist but was also a pioneer in other literary genres. His many groundbreaking works include Clotel, the first African American novel; The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom, the first published African American play; Three Years in Europe, the first African American European travelogue; and The Negro in the American Rebellion, the first history of African American military service in the Civil War. Brown also wrote one of the most important fugitive slave narratives and a striking array of subsequent self-narratives so inventively shifting in content, form, and textual presentation as to place him second only to Frederick Douglass among nineteenth-century African American autobiographers.".

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