The William Wells Brown Page

( 1814-1884 )

Major Works
William Wells Brown was a former slave and aboltionist leader who wrote the first novel, the first travel book and the first play to be published by an African American.
Paul Jefferson has edited The Travels of William Wells Brown. Markus Wiener, 1991. It includes Brown's Narrative and his American Fugutive in Europe.
Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself ( 1847; enlarged, 1848 ).
Three Years in Europe; or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met ( 1852 ).
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter ( 1853 ). Reprint edited and annotated by William Edward Farrison. University Books, 1995.
The American Fugitive in Europe: Sketches of Places and People Abroad ( 1855 ).
The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom ( 1858 ). A play.
The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements ( 1863 ).
The Negro in the American Rebellion ( 1867 ).
My Southern Home; or, The South and Its People ( 1880 ).

About Brown
William Edward Farrison, William Wells Brown: Author and Reformer. Chicago, 1969.
PAL W. W. Brown Page

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