Clotel
About this book
William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel 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 the 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.
Subjects
- 813.4
- african american families
- african american families--fiction
- african american families in fiction
- african americans, fiction
- african american women
- african american women--fiction
- african american women in fiction
- afro-american women
- brown, william wells , 1814?-1884
- children of presidents
- children of presidents--fiction
- children of presidents in fiction
- classic literature
- enfants de présidents
- enfants naturels
- enslaved persons, fiction
- familles noires américaines
- femmes esclaves
- fiction
- fiction, african american, general
- fiction, family life
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- hemings, sally
- ht 3903
- illegitimate children
- illegitimate children in fiction
- jefferson, thomas, in fiction
- ms 3450
- noires américaines
- presidents, fiction
- presidents, united states, fiction
- ps1139.b9 c53 2011
- racially mixed people
- racially mixed people--fiction
- racially mixed people in fiction
- relations with women
- relations with womenjefferson, thomas , 1743-1826
- romans, nouvelles
- slavery
- slavery in fiction
- slavery--virginia--fiction
- slaves, fiction
- slaves, united states
- southern states in fiction
- women slaves
- women slaves--fiction
- women slaves in fiction