Three Classic African-American Novels

Three African-American classics: The Heroic Slave, Frederick Douglass's piercing tale of a slave ship rebellion; Clotel, William Wells Brown's prophetic story about a child conceived by Thomas Jefferson and one of his slaves; and Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig, the semi-autobiographical novel of a young mulatto, exploited by the family she works for . . . and the man she marries.