Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine (Esprios Classics)

William Wells Brown (c. 1814 - November 6 1884) was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer novelist playwright and historian in the United States. Born into slavery in Montgomery County Kentucky near the town of Mount Sterling Brown escaped to Ohio in 1834 at the age of 19. He settled in Boston Massachusetts where he worked for abolitionist causes and became a prolific writer. While working for abolition Brown also supported causes including: temperance women's suffrage pacifism prison reform and an anti-tobacco movement. His novel Clotel (1853) considered the first novel written by an African American was published in London England where he resided at the time; it was later published in the United States.