Clotel

or, The President's Daughter

William Wells Brown

• Publisher: Dancing Unicorn Books
• Year: 2017
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781515416425
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." It is a tragic mulatto story about a woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson.

Table of contents

• The Negro Sale
• Going to the South
• The Negro Chase
• The Quadroon’s Home
• The Slave Market
• The Religious Teacher
• The Poor Whites, South
• The Separation
• The Man of Honour
• The Young Christian
• The Parson Poet
• A Night in the Parson’s Kitchen
• A Slave Hunting Parson
• A Free Woman Reduced to Slavery
• To-day a Mistress, To-morrow a Slave
• Death of the Parson
• Retaliation
• The Liberator
• Escape of Clotel
• A True Democrat
• The Christian’s Death
• A Ride in a Stage-coach
• Truth Stranger than Fiction
• The Arrest
• Death Is Freedom
• The Escape
• The Mystery
• The Happy Meeting
• Conclusion