Clotel: or, The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown

Clotel: or, The President's Daughter

William Wells Brown

214 pages first pub 1853 (editions)

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2017 Reprint of 1853 Edition. First published in December 1853, "Clotel" was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves. The story begins with the auction of his mistress, here called Cu...

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