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  • The American Fugitive in Europe. Sketches of Places and People Abroad
    William Wells 1814?-1884 Brown
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    23,75 €

  • The Escape; Or, A Leap For Freedom
    William Wells Brown
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    10,19 €

  • A Social History of the American Negro
    William Wells Brown
    This documents the participation of both free blacks and slaves during the Civil War, as well as a background of African American participation in the Revolution and War of 1812. From the preface: 'Feeling anxious to preserve for future reference an account of the part which the Negro took in suppressing the Slaveholders’ Rebellion, I have been induced to write this work. In do...
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    21,96 €

  • Social History of the American Negro Hardcover
    William Wells Brown
    This documents the participation of both free blacks and slaves during the Civil War, as well as a background of African American participation in the Revolution and War of 1812. From the preface: 'Feeling anxious to preserve for future reference an account of the part which the Negro took in suppressing the Slaveholders’ Rebellion, I have been induced to write this work. In do...
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    35,83 €

  • Narrative of William W. Brown
    William Wells Brown
    Originally published in 1847, William W. Brown offers a first-person narrative that details his enslavement and the daring escape that ultimately led to his freedom. It’s a captivating tale and testament to the perseverance and strength of the human spirit. In this narrative, William W. Brown presents the true story of his birth and life as an enslaved African American. He prov...
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    6,67 €

  • The President’s Daughter
    William Wells Brown
    Born into slavery, Clotel is a white-passing woman who conceals her identity and uses a disguise to infiltrate a plantation to rescue her loved ones. It’s a story of survival that’s deeply rooted in the cruelest part of American history.Clotel and Althesa are the illegitimate daughters of Thomas Jefferson and a slave woman named Currer. Despite their father’s elite status, the ...
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    17,77 €

  • The President’s Daughter
    William Wells Brown
    Born into slavery, Clotel is a white-passing woman who conceals her identity and uses a disguise to infiltrate a plantation to rescue her loved ones. It’s a story of survival that’s deeply rooted in the cruelest part of American history.Clotel and Althesa are the illegitimate daughters of Thomas Jefferson and a slave woman named Currer. Despite their father’s elite status, the ...
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    9,84 €

  • Clotel
    William Wells Brown
    William Wells Brown, who is credited with being the first African American novelist, crafts a groundbreaking piece of American fiction in his 1853 work “Clotel; Or, The President’s Daughter”. The long untouched subject matter of mixed race identity during the antebellum South is here treated with great deft and bravery. William Wells Brown confronts the hypocrisy of slavery, ex...
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    12,62 €

  • The Escape
    William Wells Brown
    At the age of 20, William Wells Brown escaped a life of slavery and found freedom on the banks of the Ohio River. He became an ardent abolitionist and a prolific writer. This play, published in 1858, may very well be the first piece of dramatic literature written by an African American ...
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    12,22 €

  • Clotel or, The President’s Daughter
    William Wells Brown
    This is the story of Clotel and her sister, the fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson, and their attempt to escape and find freedom. William Wells Brown wrote this novel in 1853 ...
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    12,78 €

  • The American Fugitive in Europe
    William Wells Brown
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    36,31 €

  • The Black Man
    Brown William Wells
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    36,35 €

  • Clotel
    William Wells Brown
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    20,77 €

  • Clotel
    William Wells Brown
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    12,59 €

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    William Wells Brown
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    20,63 €

  • Clotel -Or- The President’s Daughter
    William Wells Brown
    This novel explores slavery’s destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the 'degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America.' It is a tragic mulatto story about a woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson. ...
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    20,33 €

  • The Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave
    William Wells Brown
    Thirteen years ago, I came to your door, a weary fugitive from chains and stripes. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was hungry, and you fed me. Naked was I, and you clothed me. Even a name by which to be known among men, slavery had denied me. You bestowed upon me your own. Base indeed should I be, if I ever forget what I owe to you, or do anything to disgrace that honor...
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    18,05 €

  • The Travels of William Wells Brown
    William Wells Brown
    This is the remarkable story of two trips by a fugitive slave. One is the dramatic and poignant journey of a humiliated slave up the Mississippi to the North, into freedom. The second is a glorious voyage to Europe of the same man, now an elegant and eloquent ambassador of the abolitionists, who hobnobs with writers like Victor Hugo, and moves freely in high society. His autobi...
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    19,15 €

  • The Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave
    William Wells Brown
    Thirteen years ago, I came to your door, a weary fugitive from chains and stripes. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was hungry, and you fed me. Naked was I, and you clothed me. Even a name by which to be known among men, slavery had denied me. You bestowed upon me your own. Base indeed should I be, if I ever forget what I owe to you, or do anything to disgrace that honor...
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    9,22 €

  • Clotel -Or- The President’s Daughter
    William Wells Brown
    This novel explores slavery’s destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the 'degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America.' It is a tragic mulatto story about a woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson. ...
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    13,85 €

  • My Southern Home
    William Wells Brown
    The culmination of William Wells Brown’s long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown’s search for a home in a land of slavery and racism. Brown (1814-84), a prolific and celebrated abolitionist and writer often recognized as the first African American novelist for his Clotel (1853), was born enslaved in Kentucky and escaped to Ohio in 1834. In this comprehensive...
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    54,36 €

  • Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave
    William Wells Brown
    By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it one of the fastest-selling antislavery tracts of its time. The book’s popularity can be attributed both to the strong voice of its author and Brown’s notoriety as an abolitionist speaker. The son of a slave and a white man, Brown recount...
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    38,71 €

  • The Escape; Or, a Leap for Freedom
    William Wells Brown
    The first play published by an African-American, this comic 1858 melodrama about two slaves who secretly marry explores the racial tensions between North and South in the years just before the Civil War. With its mix of action, comedy, social commentary and an authenticity only a former slave could recreate, The Escape is essential reading for students of black history and lite...
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    27,89 €

  • Three Years in Europe
    William Wells Brown
    William Brown escaped from slavery as a child. Brown was still considered a slave at the time of this novel’s publication. Brown was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel and fiction. Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met begins with a detailed autobiography of the author. Three Years in Europe is the first travel book wr...
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    26,41 €

  • Clotelle - A Tale of the Southern States
    William Wells Brown
    William Brown escaped from slavery as a child. Brown was still considered a slave at the time of this novel’s publication. Brown was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel and fiction. Clotel or the President’s Daughter has been considered the first African-American novel. It was published in London in 1853. Brown hoped that his work would influen...
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    20,90 €

  • Clotel Or The President’s Daughter
    William Wells Brown
    Clotel Or The President’s Daughter is a historical novel written by William Wells Brown and published in 1853. The book is a narrative of slave life in the United States and tells the story of Clotel, a mixed-race slave who is the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress. The novel follows Clotel’s journey from slavery to freedom, as she and her mother attempt to esc...
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    33,25 €

  • Clotel
    William Wells Brown
    MORE than two hundred years have elapsed since the first cargo of slaves was landed on the banks of the James River, in the colony of Virginia, from the West coast of Africa. From the introduction of slaves in 1620, down to the period of the separation of the Colonies from the British Crown, the number had increased to five hundred thousand; now there are nearly four million. I...
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    20,22 €

  • Clotelle
    William Wells Brown
    FOR many years the South has been noted for its beautiful Quadroon women. Bottles of ink, and reams of paper, have been used to portray the 'finelycut and well-moulded features,' the 'silken curls,' the 'dark and brilliant eyes,' the 'splendid forms,' the 'fascinating smiles,' and 'accomplished manners' of these impassioned and voluptuous daughters of the two races,--the unlawf...
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    22,39 €

  • The Black Man
    William Wells Brown
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,43 €

  • The Rising Son
    William Wells Brown
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    31,16 €


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