Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States

by William Wells Brown

EN·~4 hours·37 chapters

Chapters

37 total

CLOTELLE:A TALE OF THE SOUTHERN STATES

0:02

by - William Wells Brown

1:10

CHAPTER I - THE SLAVE'S SOCIAL CIRCLE.

7:16

CHAPTER II - THE NEGRO SALE.

5:55

CHAPTER III - THE SLAVE SPECULATOR.

6:20

CHAPTER IV - THE BOAT-RACE.

5:26

CHAPTER V - THE YOUNG MOTHER.

3:25

CHAPTER VI - THE SLAVE-MARKET.

5:05

CHAPTER VII - THE SLAVE-HOLDING PARSON.

6:00

CHAPTER VIII - A NIGHT IN THE PARSON'S KITCHEN.

15:26

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~4 hours (233K characters)

Release date

2000-03-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2095

Subjects

Enslaved 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 leading abolitionist, this groundbreaking writer helped open new paths in American literature. He is especially remembered for Clotel, widely recognized as the first novel published by an African American.

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