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Clotel : or, the president's daughter / William Wells Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American families--Fiction.
- African American families.
- Children of presidents--Fiction.
- Children of presidents.
- African American women--Fiction.
- African American women.
- Multiracial people--Fiction.
- Multiracial people.
- Enslaved women--Fiction.
- Enslaved women.
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Relations with women--Fiction.
- Jefferson, Thomas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Auckland, New Zealand] : The Floating Press, 1853.
- Summary:
- 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...
- Contents:
- Title; Contents; Preface; Chapter I The Negro Sale; Chapter II Going to the South; Chapter III The Negro Chase; Chapter IV The Quadroon's Home; Chapter V The Slave Market; Chapter VI The Religious Teacher; Chapter VII The Poor Whites, South; Chapter VIII The Separation; Chapter IX The Man of Honour; Chapter X The Young Christian; Chapter XI The Parson Poet; Chapter XII A Night in the Parson's Kitchen; Chapter XIII A Slave Hunting Parson; Chapter XIV A Free Woman Reduced to Slavery; Chapter XV To-Day a Mistress, to-Morrow a Slave; Chapter XVI Death of the Parson; Chapter XVII Retaliation
- Chapter XVIII The LiberatorChapter XIX Escape of Clotel; Chapter XX A True Democrat; Chapter XXI The Christian's Death; Chapter XXII A Ride in a Stage-Coach; Chapter XXIII Truth Stranger than Fiction; Chapter XXIV The Arrest; Chapter XXV Death is Freedom; Chapter XXVI The Escape; Chapter XXVII The Mystery; Chapter XXVIII The Happy Meeting; Chapter XXIX Conclusion
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 6, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-77556-879-2
- OCLC:
- 575823167
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