Clotel, or, The president's daughter
a narrative of slave life in the United States
by William Wells Brown and M. Giulia Fabi
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William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel an African-American. When the book was published, Brown himself was legally the property of someone else within the United States, having escaped from slavery in Kentucky when he was younger. In the story President Thomas Jefferson and his former mulatto mistress Currer have had two daughters together: Althesea and Clotel. When their master passes away, their relatively comfortable lives are swept away and Currer and Althesea are bought by the harsh slave trader Dick Walker.
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African American families, African American women, Children of presidents, Fiction, Illegitimate children, Racially mixed people, Relations with women, Women slaves, Illegitimate children in fiction, Southern States in fiction, Women slaves in fiction, Jefferson, Thomas, in fiction, African American families in fiction, African American women in fiction, Slavery in fiction, Slavery, Children of presidents in fiction, Racially mixed people in fiction, Fiction, historical, Slaves, fiction, Presidents, united states, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, African americans, fiction, Presidents, fiction, Fiction, general, Afro-American women, Familles noires américaines, Romans, nouvelles, Enfants de présidents, Noires américaines, Enfants naturels, Femmes esclaves, Enslaved persons, fiction, Classic Literature, Slaves, united states, Fiction, family life, Fiction, african american, general, Relations with womenjefferson, thomas , 1743-1826, Brown, william wells , 1814?-1884, Hemings, sally, Children of presidents--fiction, African american families--fiction, Racially mixed people--fiction, African american women--fiction, Women slaves--fiction, Slavery--virginia--fiction, Ps1139.b9 c53 2011, 813.4, Ht 3903, Ms 3450People
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Clotel; or, the President's Daughter
2015, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Clotel, or, The president's daughter: a narrative of slave life in the United States
2011, Bedford/St. Martin's
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Clotel, or, The president's daughter
2000, Modern Library
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- 2000 Modern Library pbk. ed. / introduction by Hilton Als ; notes by Graham Hodges.
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Clotel, or, The president's daughter: a narrative of slave life in the United States
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Edition Notes
"The second edition includes an updated introduction that incorporates recent scholarship on the novel and on the Jefferson-Hemings relationship. The cultural documents have been reorganized and augmented with new materials to focus on Jefferson's contradictory status as revolutionary and slaveholder, on source texts about slavery and race, and on Brown's creative process.""-- p. [4] cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-424).
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