![]() He fled to Canada, and found work on the ships that plied the Great Lakes he also took a new name in honor of a Quaker who helped him. ![]() As a teen, he was hired out to a Mississippi River steamboat captain, and managed to make his escape in 1834. Brown's own father was his mother's master, and his too. It was published in England, but the text of its subsequent American edition excised all references to the distinguished forbear, Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and principal author of the Declaration of Independence.īorn in 1815 in Lexington, Kentucky, Brown was the son of a slave woman who, local lore asserted, was the daughter of frontier explorer Daniel Boone. Brown was a self-taught fugitive slave who was active in the abolitionist movement, and his novel was the first ever written by an African American. William Wells Brown's 1853 novel Clotel or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States was a tale of adventure and romance that followed the purported slave descendants of an American president. ![]() Clotel or, the President's Daughter, William Wells Brown ![]()
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