Three Classic African American Novels

Clotel: or the President's Daughter, Iola LeRoy or Shadows Uplifted, The Marrow of Tradition

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by William Wells Brown, Frances E. W. Harper and Charles W. Chestnut,

Edited by Henry Louis Gates

Random House, Inc

Due/Published November 1990, 747 pages, paper

ISBN 0679727426

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.