William L Andrews

"This extraordinary volume brings together the first three novels written by Africa-Americans in the 1850s: The Heroic Slave, Frederick Douglass's powerful fictional account of an actual mutiny aboard the slave ship Creole in 1841...Clotel, a provocative expose of slavery by William Wells Brown, who was himself a fugitive slave...and the penetrating and eloquent Our Nig, which focuses on the struggles of one young woman to achieve economic independence...