Clotel

or, The President's Daughter

By: William W. Brown, Hilton Als (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 9 January 2001 | Edition Number 1

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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. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving together a variety of contemporary source materials, Brown fills the novel with daring escapes and encounters, as well as searing depictions of the American slave trade. An innovative and challenging work of literary invention, Clotel is receiving much renewed attention today.

William Wells Brown, though born into slavery, escaped to become one of the most prominent reformers of the nineteenth century and one of the earliest historians of the black experience. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition reproduces the first, 1853, edition of Clotel and includes, as did that edition, his autobiographical narrative, "The Life and Escape of William Wells Brown," plus newly written notes.

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"A remarkable beginning for African-American fiction." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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About the Series	p. iii
About This Volume	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. xv
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: The Complete Text	p. 1
Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background	p. 3
Chronology of Brown's Life and Times	p. 29
A Note on the Text and Annotations	p. 44
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter [1853 Edition]	p. 45
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: Cultural Contexts	p. 229
Sources and Revisions	p. 231
A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled	p. 238
from Domestic Manners of the Americans	p. 245
Sale of a Daughter of Tho's Jefferson	p. 246
Jefferson's Daughter	p. 250
from Letter to Frederick Douglass' Paper	p. 252
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?	p. 253
from Sermons Addressed to Masters and Servants	p. 258
Two Proclamations	p. 262
Weld, from American Slavery As It Is	p. 265
from The New Liberty Party	p. 270
Singular Escape	p. 271
The Quadroons	p. 274
The Quadroon's Story	p. 284
The Leap from the Long Bridge. An Incident at Washington	p. 297
from Narrative of William W. Brown	p. 299
from Biography of an American Bondman	p. 302
from Original Panoramic Views	p. 306
from Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States	p. 309
from Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine	p. 315
Race, Slavery, Prejudice	p. 328
from Notes on the State of Virginia	p. 335
Letter Exchange (1791)	p. 343
from Walker's Appeal	p. 348
from African Colonization	p. 360
from Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature	p. 365
from On the Reception of Abolition Petitions	p. 371
from An Inquiry into the Scriptural Views of Slavery	p. 374
Southern Customs -- Madame Chevalier	p. 379
Colorphobia in New York!	p. 382
from Types of Mankind	p. 386
from Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race	p. 390
from The Constitution and the Union	p. 394
from Sociology for the South	p. 397
from A South-Side View of Slavery	p. 403
from The Planter's Northern Bride	p. 405
What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North	p. 414
Prohibition of Colored Persons	p. 417
Resistance and Reform	p. 420
The Confessions of Nat Turner	p. 427
To the Public	p. 444
from An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans	p. 447
from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South	p. 451
The Rights of Women	p. 456
I Am a Woman's Rights	p. 458
An Address, Delivered at the African Masonic Hall	p. 460
Responsibility of Colored People in the Free States	p. 467
The Colored People in America	p. 469
Address to the Slaves of the United States of America	p. 471
from Report of the Committee on Abolition (1847)	p. 480
Resolutions Adopted (1853)	p. 484
from Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent	p. 488
Declaration of Wrongs and Rights (1864)	p. 497
from St. Domingo: Its Revolutions and Its Patriots	p. 500
from A Plea for Captain John Brown	p. 503
Battle of Milliken's Bend	p. 509
from My Southern Home	p. 512
Selected Bibliography	p. 517
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