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Clotel Or, the President's Daughter

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ISBN-10: 0679783237

ISBN-13: 9780679783237

Edition: 2000

Authors: William W. Brown, Hilton Als

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Clotel was the first novel to be written by an African American, and was published in London while he was still regarded as property in the US. This edition includes the full text and excerpts from sources as well as commentary.
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List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.99" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Born on a plantation near Lexington, Kentucky, in 1814, William Wells Brown was the son of a white man and an enslaved woman. Living principally in and around St. Louis, Missouri until the age of twenty, Brown was exposed to and experienced slavery amid remarkably wide-ranging conditions. William worked as a house servant and field slave and was hired out as an assistant to a tavern keeper, a printer, and the slave trader James Walker, who voyaged extensively, traveling to and from the New Orleans slave market on the Mississippi River. After at least two failed attempts, Brown did escape slavery on New Year's Day, 1834. Aided in his flight from Ohio into Canada by the Quaker Wells Brown,…    

About the Series
About This Volume
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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]
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: Cultural Contexts
Sources and Revisions
A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled
from Domestic Manners of the Americans
Sale of a Daughter of Tho's Jefferson
Jefferson's Daughter
from Letter to Frederick Douglass' Paper
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
from Sermons Addressed to Masters and Servants
Two Proclamations
Weld, from American Slavery As It Is
from The New Liberty Party
Singular Escape
The Quadroons
The Quadroon's Story
The Leap from the Long Bridge. An Incident at Washington
from Narrative of William W. Brown
from Biography of an American Bondman
from Original Panoramic Views
from Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
from Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine
Race, Slavery, Prejudice
from Notes on the State of Virginia
Letter Exchange (1791)
from Walker's Appeal
from African Colonization
from Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature
from On the Reception of Abolition Petitions
from An Inquiry into the Scriptural Views of Slavery
Southern Customs -- Madame Chevalier
Colorphobia in New York!
from Types of Mankind
from Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race
from The Constitution and the Union
from Sociology for the South
from A South-Side View of Slavery
from The Planter's Northern Bride
What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North
Prohibition of Colored Persons
Resistance and Reform
The Confessions of Nat Turner
To the Public
from An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
The Rights of Women
I Am a Woman's Rights
An Address, Delivered at the African Masonic Hall
Responsibility of Colored People in the Free States
The Colored People in America
Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
from Report of the Committee on Abolition (1847)
Resolutions Adopted (1853)
from Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent
Declaration of Wrongs and Rights (1864)
from St. Domingo: Its Revolutions and Its Patriots
from A Plea for Captain John Brown
Battle of Milliken's Bend
from My Southern Home
Selected Bibliography