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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--SLAVE NARRATIVES.) BROWN, WILIAM WELLS. Narrative of William Wells Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself. Frontispiece portrait. 110 pages, original cloth, stamped in gilt on the upper cover; binding skewed and discolored from early dampness; lacks the front and rear end-papers. Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1847
first edition of the noted ex-slave, author, lecturer and reformer's first autobiographical work. Brown holds the distinction of having authored both the first novel by an African-American author, Clotel (1853), as well as the first play, "The Escape, or a Leap for Freedom" (1858).
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