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Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter
William Wells Brown
2000
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Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown about Clotel and her sister, fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. Brown, who escaped from slavery in 1834 at the age of 20, published the book in London. He was staying after a lecture tour to evade possible recapture due to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. Set in the early nineteenth century, it is considered the first novel published by an African American and is set in the United States. Three additional versions were published through 1867.
The novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." Featuring an enslaved mixed-race woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson, it is considered a tragic mulatto story. The women's relatively comfortable lives end after Jefferson's death. They confront many hardships, with the women taking heroic action to preserve their families.
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Keywords
- African American families -- Fiction
- African American women -- Fiction
- Children of presidents -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- GITenberg
- Illegitimate children -- Fiction
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with women -- Fiction
- PS
- Women slaves -- Fiction
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