Clotel or the President's Daughter by William Wells Brown.
Clotel would have historic interest simply by virtue of the fact that William Wells Brown appears to have been the first African American to write a novel. But it's not merely a literary curiosity; it is also an eminently readable and emotionally powerful, if forgivably melodramatic, portrait of the dehumanizing horrors of slave life in the Ante-bellum South.
William Wells Brown Clotel Summary. The female personages Isabella and Clotel, as the literary critics claim, embody the popular “tragic octoroon” stereotype (Brown, 6). Family is the smallest indivisible unit of any society. It exists regardless of political collisions and economic breakdowns.
The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-424). Contents. About the Series About This Volume List of Illustrations PART I: CLOTEL-- OR, THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER: THE COMPLETE TEXT Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background Chronology of Brown's Life and Times A Note on the Text and Annotations Clotel-- or, The President's Daughter (1853 Edition) PART II: CLOTEL-- OR, THE.
Clotel: or, the President's Daughter is a masterpiece of historical fiction that rings with historical truth. Based on facts and narratives that William Wells Brown collected on his own journey out of slavery, Clotel unashamedly looks many facets of slavery in the eye and calls them out as the horrors they are.
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Clotel or the President's Daughter Part 6 The fairness of Clotel's complexion was regarded with envy as well by the other servants as by the mistress herself. This is one of the hard features of slavery. To-day the woman is mistress of her own cottage; to-morrow she is sold to one who aims to make her life as intolerable as possible.