Clotel: The Presidents Daughter

William Wells Brown 1814 - 1884 was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States of America. He was born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near the town of Mount Sterling escaping to Ohio in 1834. He settled in Boston, where he worked for abolitionist causes and became a prolific writer, working for abolitionist causes, and supporting causes including: temperance, women’s suffrage, pacifism, and prison reform. His novel Clotel (1853), was considered the first novel written by an African American, was first published in London.