William Wells Brown

[Tom Beshear]

I mean it was a compelling premise for a novel that was written when it was written. In 2014, of course, we know what Brown and plenty of others had reason to suspect.
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  From: David Morris 
  To: Tom Beshear 
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  Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 6:52 PM
  Subject: Re: William Wells Brown


  I think "compells" implies plausibility, where I think now DNA has proven it to be true.

  On Saturday, March 15, 2014, Tom Beshear <tbeshear at att.net> wrote:

    Clotel is a fascinating novel -- kind of a mess, doesn't hold together the way we want novels to -- but its premise that Jefferson had children with one of  his slaves compels, as do the scenes illustrating the attitudes of various Southerners.

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    Subject: William Wells Brown



      Why Brown? Because he pioneered virtually every genre of African
      American writing. Want to know black culture in his revolutionary time
      and as it has come down to us today? Read William Wells Brown. Because
      he was the most rivetingly inventive, entertaining black writer of his
      era. And because he was, as a mid-twentieth-century critic noted, a
      person unable to be uninteresting.

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