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.
Reconsidering
the Souls of Black Folk: Thoughts of the Groundbreaking Classic Work of W.E.B. DuBois
