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Clotel, or The President’s Daughter

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Clotel, or The President’s Daughter

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SKU: 9780142437728 Category: Product ID: 46149

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Title: Clotel, or The President’s Daughter
Author: BROWN WILLIAM WELLS
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 30/12/2013
Imprint: PENGUIN US
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active

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 Currer, and their two daughters, Clotel and Althesa. The Virginian who buys Clotel falls in love with her, gets her pregnant, seems to promise marriagethen sells her. Escaping from the slave dealer, Clotel returns to Virginia disguised as a white man in order to rescue her daughter, Mary, a slave in her fathers house. A fast-paced and harrowing tale of slavery and freedom, of the hypocrisies of a nation founded on democratic principles, Clotel is more than a sensationalist novel. It is a founding text of the African American novelistic tradition, a brilliantly composed and richly detailed exploration of human relations in a new world in which race is a cultural construct.

ISBN: 9780142437728
Edition: 01