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William Wells Brown
Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter

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Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter

by William Wells Brown

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Chapters

30 total

CLOTEL; - OR, - THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER. - PREFACE

3:01

MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR - THE NEGRO SALE - GOING TO THE SOUTH - THE NEGRO CHASE - THE QUADROON'S HOME - THE SLAVE MASTER - THE RELIGIOUS TEACHER - THE POOR WHITES, SOUTH - THE SEPARATION - THE MAN OP HONOUR - THE YOUNG CHRISTIAN - THE PARSON POET - A NIGHT IN THE PARSON'S KITCHEN - A SLAVE HUNT - 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 - DEATH IS FREEDOM - THE ESCAPE - THE MYSTERY - THE HAPPY MEETING - CONCLUSION - CHAPTER I - THE NEGRO SALE

20:19

CHAPTER II - GOING TO THE SOUTH

13:26

CHAPTER III - THE NEGRO CHASE

9:47

CHAPTER IV - THE QUADROON'S HOME

5:48

CHAPTER V - THE SLAVE MARKET

6:31

CHAPTER VI - THE RELIGIOUS TEACHER

25:20

CHAPTER VII - THE POOR WHITES, SOUTH

10:07

CHAPTER VIII - THE SEPARATION

8:41

CHAPTER IX - THE MAN OF HONOUR

3:02

Description

A stark, immersive portrait of America’s early republic unfolds through the eyes of those caught in slavery’s relentless grip. The opening frames a nation built on the mass trafficking of human lives, where law, religion, and politics collude to treat millions as property. As the narrative moves from auction houses to the quiet menace of a Fugitive Slave Law, it exposes the stark contrast between lofty ideals and brutal reality.

Against this backdrop, a young woman of mixed heritage—caught between freedom and bondage—emerges as a focal point for both personal tragedy and broader social critique. Her quiet sorrow at the market stalls hints at deeper currents of resistance, faith, and the fragile hope of emancipation. The story’s first act offers a powerful meditation on conscience, the complicity of the powerful, and the yearning for a humanity that the nation itself refuses to acknowledge.

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

2000-01-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2046

Subjects

Children of presidents -- Fiction Enslaved women -- Fiction Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with women -- Fiction Domestic fiction Illegitimate children -- Fiction African American women -- Fiction African American families -- Fiction PS

About the author

William Wells Brown

d. 1884

Born into slavery and later becoming a powerful abolitionist voice, this pioneering writer helped open new ground in American literature. He is widely remembered for Clotel, often recognized as the first novel published by an African American.

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