![]() ![]() ![]() This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper. This tragic story brilliantly explores the complex history of slavery in the first part of the 19th century. In her quest for freedom we find an ill-fated soul caught up in the difficulty of race relations in early American life. Could you image being the mulatto daughter of President Thomas Jefferson and then being sold as slaves This is what the novel Clotel by William Wells Brown. Through this central character we witness the struggles of a person of mixed race in dealing with their split identity in a racially divided society. In ?Clotel?, we follow the story of Clotel, a mixed-race daughter of Thomas Jefferson. Even more direct is Brown?s confrontation of Thomas Jefferson?s controversial intimacy with his slaves, a relationship which bore many mixed race children. William Wells Brown confronts the hypocrisy of slavery, examining the detrimental effects it has on society. ![]() I will examine Clotel as a novel that does cultural. The long untouched subject matter of mixed race identity during the antebellum South is here treated with great deft and bravery. William Wells Brown is one such author more so, he is perhaps the first to. ![]() William Wells Brown, who is credited with being the first African American novelist, crafts a groundbreaking piece of American fiction in his 1853 work ?Clotel Or, The President?s Daughter?. ![]()
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