Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown
"Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter" by William Wells Brown is a novel published in 1853. This groundbreaking work tells the story of Clotel and her sister, fictional enslaved daughters of Thomas Jefferson. After Jefferson's death, the women and their mother are sold into slavery, facing separation, exploitation, and desperate choices. Through their intertwined fates, Brown explores slavery's devastating impact on African-American families and the precarious existence of mixed-race people in antebellum America.
The novel follows their heroic but tragic struggles for freedom and dignity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 |
|---|---|
| Title | Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotel |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 74.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Children of presidents -- Fiction |
| Subject | Enslaved women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Domestic fiction |
| Subject | Illegitimate children -- Fiction |
| Subject | African American women -- Fiction |
| Subject | African American families -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 2046 |
| Release Date | Jan 1, 2000 |
| Most Recently Updated | Apr 3, 2015 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 431 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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