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Clotel

by William W. Brown
Hilton Als
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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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Series: Modern Library Classics Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: August 19, 2009

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780307419279
  • Release date: August 19, 2009

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780307419279
  • File size: 2071 KB
  • Release date: August 19, 2009

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Fiction African American Fiction Historical Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:9.8
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:8-9

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.
Expand title description text
Fiction African American Fiction Historical Fiction