Clotelle; or the Colored Heroine by William Wells Brown (1814 - 1884) was originally printed by the Press of Geo. C Rand and Avery in 1867. This reproduction is

William Wells Brown's novel Clotel shows us just how far the United States was from truly representing freedom in the years before the Civil War. The novel uses

William Wells Brown's Clotel is often considered the first novel by an African-American. When the book was published, Brown himself was legally the property of