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Author: William Wells Brown Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 188
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William Wells Brown's novel Clotel shows us just how far the United States was from truly representing freedom in the years before the Civil War. The novel uses the story of Clotel, the slave-born daughter of President Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress Currer. ... In slavery, Clotel meets a slave named William.
Author: William Wells Brown Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 188
Book Description
William Wells Brown's novel Clotel shows us just how far the United States was from truly representing freedom in the years before the Civil War. The novel uses the story of Clotel, the slave-born daughter of President Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress Currer. ... In slavery, Clotel meets a slave named William.
Author: William Wells Brown Publisher: Universal-Publishers ISBN: 9781581128994 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 124
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Clotelle; or the Colored Heroine by William Wells Brown (1814 - 1884) was originally printed by the Press of Geo. C Rand and Avery in 1867. This reproduction is reset line-for-line, page-for-page from a copy in the Negro Collection of the Fisk University Library by Jeffrey Young & Associates.
Author: William Brown Publisher: ISBN: 9781532883972 Category : Languages : en Pages : 102
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William Wells Brown's Clotel is often considered the first novel by an African-American. When the book was published, Brown himself was legally the property of someone else within the United States, having escaped from slavery in Kentucky when he was younger. In this story President Thomas Jefferson and his former mulatto mistress Currer have had two daughters together: Althesea and Clotel. When their master passes away, their relatively comfortable lives are swept away and Currer and Althesea are bought by the harsh slave trader.
Author: William Wells Brown Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1427051445 Category : Languages : en Pages : 242
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Published in 1867, William Wells Browns Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine confronts racism and Afro-American slavery, which are presented as the foundation of a nation that prides itself on justice and democracy. The events play out in the background of the Civil War. A slave girl, Clotelle, is on a quest to save her daughter, whose father is her previous owner.
Author: Catherine Juanita Starke Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 296
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Traces the evolution of the Black character from stereotype to complex individual, revealing the influences of shifting cultural values.
Author: William Wells Brown
Author: William Wells Brown
Author: William Wells Brown
Author: William Brown
Author: William Wells Brown
Author: William Wells Brown
Author: William Wells Brown
Author: William Wells Brown
Author: William Wells Brown
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Author: Catherine Juanita Starke