Clotel
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Clotel

Or, the President's Daughter

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  1. 169 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Clotel

Or, the President's Daughter

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About this book

William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel by an African-American. When the book was published, Brown himself was legally the property of someone else within the United States, having escaped from slavery in Kentucky when he was younger. In this story President Thomas Jefferson and his former mulatto mistress Currer have had two daughters together: Althesea and Clotel. When their master passes away, their relatively comfortable lives are swept away and Currer and Althesea are bought by the harsh slave trader Dick Walker.

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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter I The Negro Sale
  5. Chapter II Going to the South
  6. Chapter III The Negro Chase
  7. Chapter IV The Quadroon's Home
  8. Chapter V The Slave Market
  9. Chapter VI The Religious Teacher
  10. Chapter VII The Poor Whites, South
  11. Chapter VIII The Separation
  12. Chapter IX The Man of Honour
  13. Chapter X The Young Christian
  14. Chapter XI The Parson Poet
  15. Chapter XII A Night in the Parson's Kitchen
  16. Chapter XIII A Slave Hunting Parson
  17. Chapter XIV A Free Woman Reduced to Slavery
  18. Chapter XV To-Day a Mistress, to-Morrow a Slave
  19. Chapter XVI Death of the Parson
  20. Chapter XVII Retaliation
  21. Chapter XVIII The Liberator
  22. Chapter XIX Escape of Clotel
  23. Chapter XX A True Democrat
  24. Chapter XXI The Christian's Death
  25. Chapter XXII A Ride in a Stage-Coach
  26. Chapter XXIII Truth Stranger than Fiction
  27. Chapter XXIV The Arrest
  28. Chapter XXV Death is Freedom
  29. Chapter XXVI The Escape
  30. Chapter XXVII The Mystery
  31. Chapter XXVIII The Happy Meeting
  32. Chapter XXIX Conclusion