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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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AltertumswissenschaftenTable of contents
- Title
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter I The Negro Sale
- Chapter II Going to the South
- Chapter III The Negro Chase
- Chapter IV The Quadroon's Home
- Chapter V The Slave Market
- Chapter VI The Religious Teacher
- Chapter VII The Poor Whites, South
- Chapter VIII The Separation
- Chapter IX The Man of Honour
- Chapter X The Young Christian
- Chapter XI The Parson Poet
- Chapter XII A Night in the Parson's Kitchen
- Chapter XIII A Slave Hunting Parson
- Chapter XIV A Free Woman Reduced to Slavery
- Chapter XV To-Day a Mistress, to-Morrow a Slave
- Chapter XVI Death of the Parson
- Chapter XVII Retaliation
- Chapter XVIII The Liberator
- Chapter XIX Escape of Clotel
- Chapter XX A True Democrat
- Chapter XXI The Christian's Death
- Chapter XXII A Ride in a Stage-Coach
- Chapter XXIII Truth Stranger than Fiction
- Chapter XXIV The Arrest
- Chapter XXV Death is Freedom
- Chapter XXVI The Escape
- Chapter XXVII The Mystery
- Chapter XXVIII The Happy Meeting
- Chapter XXIX Conclusion
