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Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave: Written by Himself
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Product Description: 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...read more
By William Wells Brown
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9780807869598 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: By 1849, the Narrative of William W.

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Clotel: Or, the President's Daughter: a Narrative of Slave Life in the United States
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Product Description: Clotel; or The President's Daughter (1853), the first published novel by an African American, has recently emerged as a canonical text for courses in African American as well as nineteenth-century American literature courses. The story was inspired by the rumored sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, and this edition of Clotel is the only one to reprint selections from the key texts and cultural documents that Brown drew on (and even appropriated) when he wrote his novel...read more
By William Wells Brown
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9780312621070, titled "Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States" | 2 reprint edition (Bedford/st Martins, December 22, 2010), cover price $16.35 | About this edition: Clotel; or The President's Daughter (1853), the first published novel by an African American, has recently emerged as a canonical text for courses in African American as well as nineteenth-century American literature courses.

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Clotel
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Product Description: 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...read more
By William Wells Brown
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9781605975726 | Standard Pubns Inc, May 30, 2008, cover price $8.45 | About this edition: 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.

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The Escape: Or, a Leap for Freedom
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Product Description: 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 literature...read more
By William Wells Brown
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9781616402648 | Cosimo Inc, July 30, 2010, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: 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.

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The Escape; Or, a Leap for Freedom
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Product Description: This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
By William Wells Brown
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9781602066458 | Cosimo Inc, June 30, 2007, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J.

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The Anti-slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-slavery Meetings
By William Wells Brown
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9781154613988 | Textstream, May 5, 2010, cover price $12.78

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Clotel, or the President's Daughter
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Product Description: First published in December 1853, "Clotel: or the President's Daughter" was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves. "Clotel: or the President's Daughter" story begins with the auction of his mistress, here called Currer, and their two daughters, Clotel and Althesa...read more
By William Wells Brown
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9781437831344, titled "Clotel; Or, the President's Daughter" | Indypublish.Com, July 30, 2008, cover price $41.99
9781404345324, titled "Clotel Or, the President's Daughter" | Indypublish.Com, March 1, 2003, cover price $95.99
9781563248030, titled "Clotel Or, the President's Daughter" | M E Sharpe Inc, May 1, 1996, cover price $90.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of Thomas Jefferson's illegitimate daughter and her family, and the hardship and misfortune they face in their lives
9780405018534, titled "Clotel, or the President's Daughter" | Ayer Co Pub, May 1, 1981, cover price $27.95

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9781438796543, titled "Clotel or, The President's Daughter" | Intl Business Pubns USA, September 9, 2009, cover price $59.95
9781409925552, titled "Clotel or the President's Daughter" | Dodo Pr, November 15, 2008, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian.
9781437831443, titled "Clotel; Or, the President's Daughter" | Indypublish.Com, July 30, 2008, cover price $35.99
9781434617002, titled "Clotel, or The President's Daughter" | Lightning Source Inc, October 11, 2007, cover price $20.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781434618696, titled "Clotel, or The President's Daughter" | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, October 11, 2007), cover price $22.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
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9780606286541, titled "Clotel or the President's Daughter" | Demco Media, July 1, 2003, cover price $20.10 | About this edition: Offers a fictionalized narrative of the life and family of a girl rumored to be the illegitimate mulatto daughter of Thomas Jefferson, describing her escape attempts and encounters as she circulates through the American slave trade.

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9780613708470, titled "Clotel: Or, The President's Daughter" | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $22.05 | About this edition: Offers a fictionalized narrative of the life and family of a girl rumored to be the illegitimate mulatto daughter of Thomas Jefferson, describing her escape attempts and encounters as she circulates through the American slave trade.

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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Product Description: Excerpt:Cal Reynolds shifted his tobacco quid to the other side of his mouth as he squinted down the dull blue barrel of his Winchester. His jaws worked methodically, their movement ceasing as he found his bead. He froze into rigid immobility; then his finger hooked on the trigger...read more
By William Wells Brown
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9781404345720 | Indypublish.Com, March 1, 2003, cover price $95.99

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9781438519371 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2009, cover price $10.45 | About this edition: William Brown escaped from slavery as a child.
9781409925545 | Dodo Pr, October 15, 2008, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian.
9781426409851 | Lightning Source Inc, October 30, 2007, cover price $19.75 | About this edition: Short excerpt: It was indeed a heart-rending scene to witness the lamentations of these slaves, all of whom had grown up together on the old homestead of Mr.
9781421901633 | Indypublish.Com, March 30, 2005, cover price $71.99 | About this edition: FOR many years the South has been noted for its beautiful Quadroon women.
9781404345737 | Indypublish.Com, March 1, 2003, cover price $88.99
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Clotelle
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Product Description: 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 unlawful product of the crime of human bondage...read more
By William Wells Brown
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9781605975733 | Standard Pubns Inc, May 30, 2008, cover price $11.45 | About this edition: FOR many years the South has been noted for its beautiful Quadroon women.

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Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
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Product Description: William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer and lecturer...read more
By William Wells Brown
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9781435364202, titled "The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave" | Indypublish.Com, October 12, 2007, cover price $32.99 | also contains The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave | About this edition: An influential force in the abolition movement and a lasting testimonial to the injustice of slavery, Brown's Narrative was an instant bestseller upon its 1847 publication and remains essential reading.
9781421946634 | Indypublish.Com, July 30, 2005, cover price $40.99 | About this edition: An influential force in the abolition movement and a lasting testimonial to the injustice of slavery, Brown's Narrative was an instant bestseller upon its 1847 publication and remains essential reading.

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9781409925569, titled "Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive Slave" | Dodo Pr, November 15, 2008, cover price $12.99 | also contains The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave | About this edition: William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian.
9781602067363 | Cosimo Inc, September 30, 2007, cover price $6.99 | also contains The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave | About this edition: In this autobiography, published in 1847, William Wells Brown details his life of slavery in Missouri.
9780486430973, titled "The Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive Slave" | Dover Pubns, August 1, 2003, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: An influential force in the abolition movement and a lasting testimonial to the injustice of slavery, Brown's Narrative was an instant bestseller upon its 1847 publication and remains essential reading.

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Three Years in Europe
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Product Description: With a memoir of the author by William Farmer Esq.
By William Wells Brown
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9781426496462 | Lightning Source Inc, October 11, 2007, cover price $21.75 | About this edition: With a memoir of the author by William Farmer Esq.
9781426473166 | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, October 11, 2007), cover price $23.75 | About this edition: With a memoir of the author by William Farmer Esq.

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My Southern Home: Or, the South and It's People
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Product Description: 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...read more
By William Wells Brown
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9780807835111, titled "My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People" | Univ of North Carolina Pr, November 7, 2011, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: 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.

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9780807872086, titled "My Southern Home or, The South and Its People: The South and Its People" | Univ of North Carolina Pr, November 7, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: 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.
9781409980728 | Dodo Pr, December 25, 2009, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian.

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Clotelle or, the Colored Heroine: A Tale of the Southern States
Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...read more
By William Wells Brown
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9781438796550 | Intl Business Pubns USA, September 9, 2009, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

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Sketches of Places and People Abroad
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Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more
By William Wells Brown
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9781103794102 | Lightning Source Inc, April 30, 2009, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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9781103794010 | Lightning Source Inc, April 30, 2009, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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Clotelle: Or the Colored Heroine
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Product Description: William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer and lecturer...read more
By William Wells Brown
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9781437831009, titled "Clotelle; or the Colored Heroine" | Indypublish.Com, July 30, 2008, cover price $41.99 | About this edition: Short excerpt: Among the above slaves advertised for sale were Agnes and her two daughters.
9781404344907, titled "Clotelle or the Colored Heroine" | Indypublish.Com, February 1, 2003, cover price $95.99 | About this edition: Short excerpt: Among the above slaves advertised for sale were Agnes and her two daughters.
9780685167809 | Mnemosyne Pub Co, June 1, 1987, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Short excerpt: Among the above slaves advertised for sale were Agnes and her two daughters.

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9781409916635, titled "Clotelle or the Colored Heroine" | Dodo Pr, December 15, 2008, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian.
9781437831047, titled "Clotelle; or the Colored Heroine" | Indypublish.Com, July 30, 2008, cover price $35.99 | About this edition: Short excerpt: Among the above slaves advertised for sale were Agnes and her two daughters.
9781419113437, titled "Clotelle Or The Colored Heroine" | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2004, cover price $20.95
9781404344914, titled "Clotelle or the Colored Heroine" | Indypublish.Com, February 1, 2003, cover price $88.99 | About this edition: Short excerpt: Among the above slaves advertised for sale were Agnes and her two daughters.
9781581128994 | Upublish.Com, January 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Short excerpt: Among the above slaves advertised for sale were Agnes and her two daughters.

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Three Years in Europe or Places I Have Seen And People I Have Met
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Product Description: William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer and lecturer...read more
By William Wells Brown
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9781421953076 | Indypublish.Com, August 30, 2005, cover price $95.99 | About this edition: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Original Publisher: C.

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9781409925576, titled "Three Years in Europe; Or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met" | Dodo Pr, November 30, 2008, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian.
9781421953083 | Indypublish.Com, September 30, 2005, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: With a memoir of the author by William Farmer Esq.

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Three Great African-American Novels: The Heroic Slave / Clotel / Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
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Product Description: Three African-American classics: The Heroic Slave, Frederick Douglass's piercing tale of a slave ship rebellion; Clotel, William Wells Brown's prophetic story about a child conceived by Thomas Jefferson and one of his slaves; and Harriet E...read more
By William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass and Harriet E. Wilson
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9780486468518 | Dover Pubns, November 24, 2008, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Three African-American classics: The Heroic Slave, Frederick Douglass's piercing tale of a slave ship rebellion; Clotel, William Wells Brown's prophetic story about a child conceived by Thomas Jefferson and one of his slaves; and Harriet E.

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Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
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9781442909045 | Read How You Want.Com, November 5, 2008, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Books for All Kinds of Readers.

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Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
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9781442909052 | Read How You Want.Com, November 5, 2008, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Books for All Kinds of Readers.

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The Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive Slave: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
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9781442901537 | Read How You Want.Com, November 5, 2008, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today.

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The Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive Slave: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
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9781442901544 | Read How You Want.Com, November 5, 2008, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today.

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The Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive Slave: Easy Read Comfort Edition
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9781442901513 | Read How You Want.Com, November 5, 2008, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today.

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Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
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9781442909069 | Read How You Want.Com, November 5, 2008, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers.
9781442909212 | Read How You Want.Com, November 5, 2008, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers.

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Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met: Easy Read Comfort Edition
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9781442909007 | Read How You Want.Com, November 5, 2008, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Books for All Kinds of Readers.

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The Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive Slave; Easyread Edition
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9781442901278 | Read How You Want.Com, November 5, 2008, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today.

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