Beschreibung:
With the exception of the last four chapters, this work was written before the breaking out of the recent rebellion. Although romantic in many of its details, it is, nevertheless, a truthful description of scenes which occurred in the places which are given.Both Clotelle and Jerome are real personages. Many of the incidents were witnessed by the author.William Wells Brown was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States.