Clotel: The President's Daughter - William Wells Brown

By William Wells Brown

Release Date: 2015-06-10

Genre: U.S. History

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This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." It is a tragic mulatto story about a woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson.

Clotel: The President's Daughter - William Wells Brown

By William Wells Brown

Release Date: 2015-06-10

Genre: U.S. History

(0 ratings)
This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." It is a tragic mulatto story about a woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson.

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