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Clotel: The Presidents Daughter
Clotel: The Presidents Daughter is a fictional story that plays to the well-known rumor starting in the 19th century that Thomas Jefferson had fathered several children with Sally Hemings, a woman whom he had enslaved. The children were described to be nearly white in physical description. Sally Hemings was believed to be the half-sister of Jefferson wife. Set in the early19th century the novel considers slavery's catastrophic effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of mixed race people, and the degraded and immoral condition of the relationship between the enslaver and the enslaved in the United States of America. Clotel is considered a tragic mulatto story featuring an enslaved mixed-race woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson. They women face much hardship while taking heroic measures to preserve their family.
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Clotel: The Presidents Daughter
Clotel: The Presidents Daughter is a fictional story that plays to the well-known rumor starting in the 19th century that Thomas Jefferson had fathered several children with Sally Hemings, a woman whom he had enslaved. The children were described to be nearly white in physical description. Sally Hemings was believed to be the half-sister of Jefferson wife. Set in the early19th century the novel considers slavery's catastrophic effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of mixed race people, and the degraded and immoral condition of the relationship between the enslaver and the enslaved in the United States of America. Clotel is considered a tragic mulatto story featuring an enslaved mixed-race woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson. They women face much hardship while taking heroic measures to preserve their family.
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Clotel: The Presidents Daughter

Clotel: The Presidents Daughter

by William Wells Brown
Clotel: The Presidents Daughter

Clotel: The Presidents Daughter

by William Wells Brown

Overview

Clotel: The Presidents Daughter is a fictional story that plays to the well-known rumor starting in the 19th century that Thomas Jefferson had fathered several children with Sally Hemings, a woman whom he had enslaved. The children were described to be nearly white in physical description. Sally Hemings was believed to be the half-sister of Jefferson wife. Set in the early19th century the novel considers slavery's catastrophic effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of mixed race people, and the degraded and immoral condition of the relationship between the enslaver and the enslaved in the United States of America. Clotel is considered a tragic mulatto story featuring an enslaved mixed-race woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson. They women face much hardship while taking heroic measures to preserve their family.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781539680864
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 10/21/2016
Pages: 204
Sales rank: 782,557
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

William Wells Brown 1814 - 1884 was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States of America. He was born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near the town of Mount Sterling escaping to Ohio in 1834. He settled in Boston, where he worked for abolitionist causes and became a prolific writer, working for abolitionist causes, and supporting causes including: temperance, women's suffrage, pacifism, and prison reform. His novel Clotel (1853),was considered the first novel written by an African American, was first published in London.
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