Narrative of William W. Brown

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William Wells Brown (c. 1814-1884) was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States. His novel "Clotel" (1853), considered the first novel written by an African American, was published in London, England, where he resided at the time; it was later published in the United States. In 1858 he became the first published African-American playwright, and often read from this work on the lecture circuit. Following the Civil War, in 1867 he published what is considered the first history of African Americans in the Revolutionary War.

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