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Books like Clotel

Explore 24 books like Clotel by William Wells Brown — a handpicked selection united by African American & Black and Classics.

Top related books to Clotel

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Clotel.

Slaves in the Family

Edward Ball

Themes: African American & Black

Sleeping with the Ancestors How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery — Joseph McGill, Jr.

Joseph McGill (Jr.)

Themes: African American & Black

The Devil’s Half Acre The Untold Story of how One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail

Kristen Green (Journalist)

Themes: African American & Black

The Barn The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson

Themes: African American & Black

Where You are is Not who You are A Memoir

Ursula Burns

Themes: African American & Black

12 Years a Slave A Memoir of Kidnap, Slavery and Liberation

Solomon Northup

Themes: African American & Black

The Essential Dick Gregory

Dick Gregory

Themes: African American & Black

The Matter of Black Lives Writing from the New Yorker

Jelani Cobb

Themes: African American & Black

The Street

Ann Petry

Themes: African American & Black • Classics

#10

Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather

WILLA. CATHER

Themes: African American & Black • Classics

#11

Let It Shine Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Themes: African American & Black

#12

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Themes: African American & Black • Classics

#13

Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)

Margaret Walker

Themes: African American & Black • Classics

#14

An Amerikan Family The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

Santi Elijah Holley

Themes: African American & Black

#15

The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton How Two Outsiders–One Black, the Other Jewish–Forged a Friendship and Made Sports History

Bruce Schoenfeld

Themes: African American & Black

#16

The Last Negroes at Harvard The Class of 1963 and the Eighteen Young Men who Changed Harvard Forever

Kent Garrett

Themes: African American & Black

#17

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

Themes: African American & Black

#18

American Progressives and German Social Reform, 1875-1920 Social Ethics, Moral Control, and the Regulatory State in a Transatlantic Context

Axel R. Schäfer

Themes: African American & Black

#19

Patriarchy Blues Reflections on Manhood

Frederick Joseph

Themes: African American & Black

#20

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

Themes: African American & Black • Classics

#21

James Baldwin Living in Fire

Bill Mullen

Themes: African American & Black

#22

Country Place

Ann Petry

Themes: African American & Black • Classics

#23

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Linda Brent

Themes: African American & Black

#24

Harriet Tubman A Biography

James A. McGowan

Themes: African American & Black

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of African American & Black, Classics — the same threads that run through Clotel by William Wells Brown. Among the authors featured: Edward Ball, Joseph McGill (Jr.), Kristen Green (Journalist), Wright Thompson, and others.