Returning Voices
Clotelle; Or, The Colored Heroine
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA woman born enslaved and fathered by the very man who claims to own her is sold away from her own children, in a novel modeled closely on the author’s real family history. Brown was himself formerly enslaved, and wrote this as the first known novel published by an African American, though first in England rather than at home. Read it as testimony as much as fiction; for its author, the two were not easily separated.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 3 hr 5 min
- Where to find it
- On the Returning Voices shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #241. In the public domain in the United States.