Clotel; or, the President's Daughter - William Wells Brown

By William Wells Brown

Release Date: 2012-06-11

Genre: Fiction for Young Adults

4 (13 ratings)
This book tells the story of the slave Currer and her daughters, Clotel and Althesa, and of their attempts to escape from slavery. The unacknowledged father of the girls, President Thomas Jefferson, is the reason for the title and a theme that runs through the book.

Clotel; or, the President's Daughter - William Wells Brown

By William Wells Brown

Release Date: 2012-06-11

Genre: Fiction for Young Adults

4 (13 ratings)
This book tells the story of the slave Currer and her daughters, Clotel and Althesa, and of their attempts to escape from slavery. The unacknowledged father of the girls, President Thomas Jefferson, is the reason for the title and a theme that runs through the book.

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