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Acknowledgements Introduction William Wells Brown: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter
Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews
- “Clotel,” Hereford Times (17 December 1853)
- “Clotel,” Pennsylvania Freeman (29 December 1853)
- “W.W. Brown’s New Work,” National Anti-Slavery Standard (31 December 1853)
- “Clotel,” Anti-Slavery Advocate (January 1854)
- “Clotel,” Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine 21 (January 1854)
- “Clotel,” Bristol Mercury (28 January 1854)
- [William Lloyd Garrison,] “New Work by William Wells Brown,” Liberator (3 February 1854)
Appendix B: Slave-Auction Scenes
- From [William Lloyd Garrison,] “A Scene at New Orleans,” Liberator (21 September 1838)
- H.S.D., “An Auction,” National Anti-Slavery Standard (20 March 1845)
- “Slave Auction Scene,” Anti-Slavery Reporter (1 December 1846)
- From “The Case of Two Slave Girls,” Christian Watchman (2 November 1848)
- From “Visit to a Slave Auction,” Frederick Douglass' Paper (2 February 1855)
Appendix C: The Aesthetic of Attractions
- From [Gamaliel Bailey,] “Popular Amusements in New York” National Era (15 April 1847)
- “Mechanical Museum—Lafayette Bazaar,” New York Evening Post (22 December 1847)
- From “Banvard’s Panorama of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers,” Illustrated London News (9 December 1848)
- From George Washington Bungay, Crayon Sketches and Off-Hand Takings (1852)
Appendix D: Brown and His Audiences
- From “The Anniversaries,” New York Herald (9 May 1849)
- From “Address from W.W. Brown, an Escaped Slave,” Norfolk News (4 May 1850)
- From “Third Anniversary of the New York Anti-Slavery Society,” National Anti-Slavery Standard (16 May 1856)
- From “Speech of William Wells Brown,” National Anti-Slavery Standard (26 May 1860)
Appendix E: Plagiarism
- From [James Frederick Ferrier,] “The Plagiarisms of S.T. Coleridge,” Blackwood’s Magazine 47 (March 1840)
- From “Plagiarism,” New-York Mirror (15 January 1842)
- Untitled article, Caledonian Mercury (18 November 1852)
- From untitled article, London Times (22 November 1852)
- From “Stop Thief!” Fife Herald (25 November 1852)
- From William Wells Brown, “Letter from William W. Brown,” Frederick Douglass’ Paper (10 June 1853)
- From Thomas Montgomery, Literary Societies, Their Uses and Abuses (1853)
- From “Plagiarism: Especially That of Coleridge,” Eclectic Magazine 32 (August 1854)
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