Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.
Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Brown, William Wells (?–1884).
Catalogue synopsis
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"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.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter
- Author credits: Brown, William Wells (?–1884)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- African American families -- Fiction
- African American women -- Fiction
- Children of presidents -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Enslaved women -- Fiction
- Illegitimate children -- Fiction
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with women -- Fiction
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- African American Writers
- Category: American Literature
- Category: Novels
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