Clotel: or, The President's Daughter

by William Wells Brown

Overview

This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." It is a tragic mulatto story about a woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617209550
Publisher:	SMK Books
Publication date:	06/10/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	716 KB

About the Author

William Wells Brown (1814–1884) was born a slave, escaped to the North and then to England, and became one of the most prominent abolitionists of his time. During his prolific literary career, Brown was a pioneer in several different genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama.

M. Giulia Fabi is the author of Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel. She teaches American literature at the University of Ferrara, Italy.

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The Negro Sale.
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Editorial Reviews

"A remarkable beginning for African-American fiction."
—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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