Clotel: Or, the President's DaughterThe Floating Press, 1 maj 2009 - 265 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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Chapter VII The Poor Whites South | 72 |
Chapter XVI Death of the Parson | 133 |
Chapter XVII Retaliation | 142 |
Chapter XVIII The Liberator | 147 |
Chapter XIX Escape of Clotel | 157 |
Chapter XX A True Democrat | 175 |
Chapter XXI The Christians Death | 182 |
Chapter XXII A Ride in a StageCoach | 192 |
Chapter XXIII Truth Stranger than Fiction | 208 |
Chapter VIII The Separation | 80 |
Chapter IX The Man of Honour | 87 |
Chapter X The Young Christian | 90 |
Chapter XI The Parson Poet | 100 |
Chapter XII A Night in the Parsons Kitchen | 106 |
Chapter XIII A Slave Hunting Parson | 114 |
Chapter XIV A Free Woman Reduced to Slavery | 123 |
Chapter XV ToDay a Mistress toMorrow a Slave | 128 |
Chapter XXIV The Arrest | 217 |
Chapter XXV Death is Freedom | 224 |
Chapter XXVI The Escape | 233 |
Chapter XXVII The Mystery | 246 |
Chapter XXVIII The Happy Meeting | 251 |
Chapter XXIX Conclusion | 263 |
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