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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... fathers ) of Elizabeth , one of about forty slaves owned by Dr. John Young ; his father was Young's cousin , George Higgins , who extracted from Young a promise never to sell the boy . When Young moved to St. Louis in 1827 , he hired ...
... fathers ) of Elizabeth , one of about forty slaves owned by Dr. John Young ; his father was Young's cousin , George Higgins , who extracted from Young a promise never to sell the boy . When Young moved to St. Louis in 1827 , he hired ...
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... fathers are slaveowners , and their mothers slaves . Society does not frown upon the man who sits with his mulatto child upon his knee , whilst its mother stands a slave behind his chair . The late Henry Clay , some years since ...
... fathers are slaveowners , and their mothers slaves . Society does not frown upon the man who sits with his mulatto child upon his knee , whilst its mother stands a slave behind his chair . The late Henry Clay , some years since ...
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... Father of Waters , Walker called his servant Pompey to him , and instructed him as to " getting the negroes ready for market . ” Amongst the forty negroes were several whose appearance indi- cated that they had seen some years , and had ...
... Father of Waters , Walker called his servant Pompey to him , and instructed him as to " getting the negroes ready for market . ” Amongst the forty negroes were several whose appearance indi- cated that they had seen some years , and had ...
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... father gave him to me when I came of age , and I promised not to part with him . " " Most certainly , sir , the boy shall be yours , whenever you hand hand me over a cool thou- sand , ” replied Johnson . The next morning , as the ...
... father gave him to me when I came of age , and I promised not to part with him . " " Most certainly , sir , the boy shall be yours , whenever you hand hand me over a cool thou- sand , ” replied Johnson . The next morning , as the ...
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... father seemed to rejoice in it with unmingled pride; but in the deep tenderness of the mother's eye, there was an indwelling sadness that spoke of anxious thoughts and fearful foreboding. Clotel now urged Horatio to remove to France or ...
... father seemed to rejoice in it with unmingled pride; but in the deep tenderness of the mother's eye, there was an indwelling sadness that spoke of anxious thoughts and fearful foreboding. Clotel now urged Horatio to remove to France or ...
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