Clotel or The President's DaughterCourier Corporation, 9 mar 2012 - 160 The first novel by an African-American, this dramatic tale revolves around the fate of a child fathered by Thomas Jefferson with one of his slaves. Although born into slavery, author William Wells Brown escaped bondage to become a prominent reformer and historian. His emotionally powerful depiction of slavery and racial conflict in the antebellum South resounds with the immediacy and honesty of his own experiences. Brown weaves a variety of contemporary sources — sermons, lectures, political pamphlets, and newspaper advertisements — into this innovative work, which appears here in an unabridged republication of the 1853 first edition. |
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... amongst the slave population no safeguard is thrown around virtue, and no inducement held out to slave women to be chaste, you will not be surprised when we tell you that immorality and vice pervade the cities of the Southern States in ...
... amongst the slave population no safeguard is thrown around virtue, and no inducement held out to slave women to be chaste, you will not be surprised when we tell you that immorality and vice pervade the cities of the Southern States in ...
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... Amongst the above slaves to be sold were Currer and her two daughters , Clotel and Althesa ; the latter were the girls spoken of in the advertisement as " very superior . " Currer was a bright mulatto , and of prepos- sessing appearance ...
... Amongst the above slaves to be sold were Currer and her two daughters , Clotel and Althesa ; the latter were the girls spoken of in the advertisement as " very superior . " Currer was a bright mulatto , and of prepos- sessing appearance ...
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... amongst the crowd. There she stood, with a complexion as white as most of those who were waiting with a wish to become her purchasers; her features as finely defined as any of her sex of pure Anglo-Saxon; her long black wavy hair done ...
... amongst the crowd. There she stood, with a complexion as white as most of those who were waiting with a wish to become her purchasers; her features as finely defined as any of her sex of pure Anglo-Saxon; her long black wavy hair done ...
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... Amongst the forty negroes were several whose appearance indi- cated that they had seen some years , and had gone through some services . Their grey hair and whiskers at once pronounced them to be above the ages set down in the trader's ...
... Amongst the forty negroes were several whose appearance indi- cated that they had seen some years , and had gone through some services . Their grey hair and whiskers at once pronounced them to be above the ages set down in the trader's ...
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... amongst both passengers and crew . At this moment the engineer of the Patriot was seen to fasten down the safety - valve , so that no steam should escape . This was , indeed , a dangerous resort . A few of the boat hands who saw what ...
... amongst both passengers and crew . At this moment the engineer of the Patriot was seen to fasten down the safety - valve , so that no steam should escape . This was , indeed , a dangerous resort . A few of the boat hands who saw what ...
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