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
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EBook-No. 2046
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Apr 3, 2015
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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