![]() ![]() ![]() This was also when he wrote, Clotel or the President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (1853), which was the first published novel written by an African American. During this period, Brown claimed to deliver over a thousand antislavery lectures. ![]() Then owing to concerns over his safety, Brown relocated to Great Britain, spending about five years overseas between 18, until British abolitionists helped purchase his freedom. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself in 1847. Brown published a widely read account of his enslavement, entitled, Narrative of William W. He escaped to freedom in 1834, settling in Ohio, where he was active in the Underground Railroad, helping other runaways find freedom in Canada. ![]() Although born in Kentucky, Brown spent most of his enslaved life in St. 1814-1884) ultimately became renowned for his wide-ranging antislavery writings. But she was a slave, and therefore out of the pale of their sympathy.īorn enslaved near Lexington, Kentucky, William Wells Brown (c. Had Clotel escaped from oppression in any other land, in the disguise in which she fled from the Mississippi to Richmond, and reached the United States, no honour within the gift of the American people would have been too good to have been heaped upon the heroic woman. ![]()
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