Clotel: Or, the President's Daughter by William Wells Brown, William W. Brown

Clotel: Or, the President's Daughter

William Wells Brown, William W. Brown

256 pages first pub 1853 (editions)

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The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving toge...

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