... American fiction came along during the mid 1800's by William Wells Brown. Brown, an escaped slave, wrote such novels as Clotel (the first published novel by an African American) and The Presidents Daughter (1853) along with a play, travelogue, and a compilation of anti-slavery songs. All of ... . Harper's books include Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854); Moses: A Story of the Nile (1869); and Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892), a novel. Harper's work as an African American woman gives a different perspective and view that I believe is needed because women were slaves just like th...

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