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Three Classic African-American Novels
William Brown etal
$6.95
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From the Publisher:
This extraordinary volume brings together the first three novels written by African-Americans in the 1850s: The Heroic Slave, Frederick Douglass's powerful fictional account of an actual mutiny aboard the slave ship Creole in 1841.Clotel, a provocative exposé of slavery by William Wells Brown, who was himself a fugitive slave.and the penetrating and eloquent Our Nig, Harriet E. Wilson's depiction of one young woman's struggles to achieve economic independence and self-respect. The scope and richness of African-American literature are brilliantly exemplified in these three works. Here is a landmark collection that offers an important perspective on both African-American culture and the literature of the United States.
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the Souls of Black Folk: Thoughts of the Groundbreaking Classic Work of W.E.B. DuBois
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