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A review by aeeklund
Clotel: Or, the President's Daughter by William Wells Brown
5.0
How the actual hell have I never heard of this book before?
Clotel: or, the President's Daughter is a masterpiece of historical fiction that rings with historical truth. Based on facts and narratives that William Wells Brown collected on his own journey out of slavery, Clotel unashamedly looks many facets of slavery in the eye and calls them out as the horrors they are. I wish like crazy that this book had been taught to me in school. I learned far more from it than I did from many of the narratives set before me. And it reaches through time to judge America now.
I intend to write more analytically when I can properly collect my thoughts. This book deserves it.
Clotel: or, the President's Daughter is a masterpiece of historical fiction that rings with historical truth. Based on facts and narratives that William Wells Brown collected on his own journey out of slavery, Clotel unashamedly looks many facets of slavery in the eye and calls them out as the horrors they are. I wish like crazy that this book had been taught to me in school. I learned far more from it than I did from many of the narratives set before me. And it reaches through time to judge America now.
I intend to write more analytically when I can properly collect my thoughts. This book deserves it.