jeanpaulbooks - Congratulations! You are correct. It was William Wells Brown: Clotel, or the President's Daughter (1853).
And sorry about the unclear wording. It was not meant to be a 'trick question.'
Brown escaped from slavery in 1834 at the age of 20 and after his escape , he was befriended by a Quaker couple in Ohio, Mr. & Mrs. Wells Brown, whose names he added to his own. He is also recognized as the first African-American to write a travel book, Three Years in Europe (1852) as well as a number of other literary firsts for an African-American.
From Wiki:
"William Wells Brown (circa 1814–1884) was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. A contemporary of Frederick Douglass, Wells Brown was overshadowed by the charismatic orator and the two feuded publicly. Brown was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama. He has a school named after him in Lexington, Kentucky and was among the first writers inducted to the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.
Clotel, or, The President’s Daughter: a Narrative of Slave Life in the United States was published in London in 1853. It portrays the fictional plight of two mulatto daughters born to Thomas Jefferson and one of his slaves. Brown was lecturing in England when the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law was passed in the US; he stayed overseas for several years to avoid the risk of capture and re-enslavement. After his freedom was purchased in 1854 by a British couple, he and his two daughters returned to the US.
Most scholars agree that Brown is the first published African-American playwright. Brown wrote two plays after his return to the US: Experience; or, How to Give a Northern Man a Backbone (1856, unpublished and no longer extant) and The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom (1858). He read the latter aloud at abolitionist meetings in lieu of the typical lecture.
In 1847, he published his memoir, the Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself, which became a bestseller across the United States, second only to Frederick Douglass' slave narrative. He critiques his master’s lack of Christian values and the brutal use of violence in master-slave relations.
Brown also wrote several histories, including The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863); The Negro in the American Rebellion (1867), considered the first historical work about black soldiers in the American Revolutionary War; and The Rising Son (1873). His last book was another memoir, My Southern Home (1880)."
Source and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wells_Brown
