Volume 48, Number 10 · June 21, 2001
The Wind Done Gone
By Joyce Carol Oates
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter
William Wells Brown, with an introduction by Hilton Als
Modern Library, 230 pp., $10.95 (paper)
Passing
Nella Larsen, with an introduction by Ntozake Shange
Modern Library, 182 pp., $18.95
Of African-Americans who have written on slavery from the perspective of having been born slaves, lived as slaves, suffered as slaves, and at last escaped from slavery, no one has written more movingly and more persuasively than William Wells Brown (circa 1814–1884), an abolitionist and reformer whose last book, My Southern Home; or, The South and Its People (1880), is a forerunner of W.E.B. Du Bois's magisterial The Souls of Black Folk (1903).
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