Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States 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.

Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter, published in 1853 by former slave William Wells Brown, is considered the first African-American novel. Drawing on what were, in the 19th century, rumors that Thomas Jefferson had children with his slave Sally Hemings, the novel follows the slave Clotel and her family as they are sold to different masters.

2000年1月1日 · "Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter" by William Wells Brown is a novel written in the mid-19th century that explores the themes of slavery, race, and social injustice in America. The story follows Clotel, the daughter of a slave and a slaveholder, reflecting the complex and painful realities faced by those of mixed heritage in a society that ...

Clotel follows Jefferson’s fictional mistress, Currer, and her daughters, Clotel and Althesa, during and after their sale on the auction block in Richmond; it also included documentary material—newspaper articles, notices, bills, posters, and advertisements—that contextualized his novel for a British readership that knew little about ...

Clotel, novel by William Wells Brown, first published in England in 1853. Brown revised it three times for publication in the United States—serially and in book form—each time changing the plot, the title, and the names of characters. The book was first published in the United States in 1864 as Clotelle: A Tale of Southern States.

Currer is the slave of Thomas Jefferson. When he strikes up a sexual relationship with her, he grants her special favors so that she works as a laundress and pays him her wages. She is still a slave in the eyes of the law. Together they have two daughters -- Clotel and Althesa.

The first African American novel, Clotel was published when its author was still legally a slave. This digital edition presents, for the first time together, the full extant texts of the novel's four versions, published between 1853 and 1867.

A year later, Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States, widely recognized as the first African American novel, was published.

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 …

2024年7月9日 · William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel an African-American. When the book was published, Brown himself was legally the property of someone else within the United States, having escaped from slavery in Kentucky when he was younger.