William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life in the 19th century in these three novels.
Author: William W. Brown; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Charles W. Chesnutt; Henry Louis Gates Jr. (ed.) · Original publisher: Vintage Books (1990)
Tier 1 — Full text hosted on this page. Public domain: first published 1853 (Clotel), 1892 (Iola Leroy) and 1901 (The Marrow of Tradition); full text of the original works freely available at Project Gutenberg. (Our catalog record is a later edition.) The full text is held in fulltexts/ as `9469-three-classic-african-american-novels.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).
