Clotel by william wells brown7/7/2023 Only Clotel would influence the course of fiction during the nineteenth century, as it was eventually republished in America in several different versions, for the first time in 1864 as part of the publisher James Redpath's Books for the Camp Fire series for Union soldiers. 1850s), was not published as a book until the twenty-first century. One, Harriet Wilson's Our Nig (1859), would remain largely unread in book form during its own time, and the other, Hannah Crafts's The Bondwoman's Narrative (c. Two of these came out during the 1850s, soon after Clotel. There was usually insufficient capital for blacks to run their own publishing firms, and white firms were reluctant to endorse black writers, fearing to alienate their white audiences and to lose money from books written by and at least in part aimed toward a minority population. Throughout the nineteenth century, it was difficult for black novelists to get a book published in the United States. It was published in London in 1853 because the British were generally considered more sympathetic than the Americans to the plight of African American slaves during pre– Civil War times. 1814–1884), is the first novel published by an African American. Clotel or, The President's Daughter, by William Wells Brown (c.
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