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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... master I had ever had,” Brown wrote later, and the man to whom he was indebted “for what little learning I obtained while in slavery.”1 But his stay with Lovejoy was much too brief. In 1832 he was hired out to a slave trader, and for a ...
... master I had ever had,” Brown wrote later, and the man to whom he was indebted “for what little learning I obtained while in slavery.”1 But his stay with Lovejoy was much too brief. In 1832 he was hired out to a slave trader, and for a ...
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... master and slave in the United States of America. In all the slave states, the law says:—“Slaves shall be deemed ... master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry, and his labour. He can do ...
... master and slave in the United States of America. In all the slave states, the law says:—“Slaves shall be deemed ... master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry, and his labour. He can do ...
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... master.” Where the slave is placed by law entirely under the control of the man who claims him, body and soul, as property, what else could be expected than the most depraved social condition? The marriage relation, the oldest and most ...
... master.” Where the slave is placed by law entirely under the control of the man who claims him, body and soul, as property, what else could be expected than the most depraved social condition? The marriage relation, the oldest and most ...
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... master, Mr. Graves, and supported herself and two children. At the time of the decease of her master, Currer's daughters, Clotel and Althesa, were aged respectively sixteen and fourteen years, and both, like most of their own sex in ...
... master, Mr. Graves, and supported herself and two children. At the time of the decease of her master, Currer's daughters, Clotel and Althesa, were aged respectively sixteen and fourteen years, and both, like most of their own sex in ...
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... master. “Pomp,” as Walker usually called him, was of real negro blood, and would often say, when alluding to himself, “Dis nigger is no countefit; he is de genewine artekil.” Pompey was of low stature, round face, and, like most of his ...
... master. “Pomp,” as Walker usually called him, was of real negro blood, and would often say, when alluding to himself, “Dis nigger is no countefit; he is de genewine artekil.” Pompey was of low stature, round face, and, like most of his ...
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