Author: William Wells BrownPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465562419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine: A Tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter
Author: William Wells BrownPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465562419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Clotelle
Author: William Wells BrownPublisher:
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.
Clotelle; The Colored Heroine, a Tale of the Southern States
Author: William Wells BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337497774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Clotelle
Author: William Wells BrownPublisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 9781581128994
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
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.
Clotelle, Or, The Colored Heroine
Author: William Wells BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Clotelle; Or, the Colored Heroine
Author: William BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9781729688113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Long before the true story of Sally Hemings became widely known, William Wells Brown wrote his stirring novel, Clotelle, telling the story of a slave girl fathered by Thomas Jefferson. Escaping to her freedom, Clotelle returned to the South in search of her own daughter.William Wells Brown released several versions of the novel under variations of the title, including: "Clotel", "Miralda; or, The Beautiful Quadroon", and "Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States". As a work of historical fiction and a marker of American culture, the novel stands as a unique fictionalized, but plausible, narrative.
Clotelle; Or, the Colored Heroine; A Tale of the Southern States. by
Author: William Wells BrownPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537072012
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
William Wells Brown (circa 1814 - November 6, 1884) was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States. Born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near the town of Mount Sterling, Brown escaped to Ohio in 1834 at the age of 20. He settled in Boston, where he worked for abolitionist causes and became a prolific writer. His novel Clotel (1853), considered the first novel written by an African American, was published in London, where he resided at the time; it was later published in the United States. Brown was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama. In 1858 he became the first published African-American playwright, and often read from this work on the lecture circuit. Following the Civil War, in 1867 he published what is considered the first history of African Americans in the Revolutionary War. He was among the first writers inducted to the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. A public school was named for him in Lexington, Kentucky. Brown was lecturing in England when the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law was passed in the US; as its provisions increased the risk of capture and re-enslavement, he stayed overseas for several years. He traveled throughout Europe. After his freedom was purchased in 1854 by a British couple, he and his two daughters returned to the US, where he rejoined the abolitionist lecture circuit in the North. A contemporary of Frederick Douglass, Wells Brown was overshadowed by the charismatic orator and the two feuded publicl
Clotelle - a Tale of the Southern States
Author: William Wells BrownPublisher: Book Jungle
ISBN: 9781438519371
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
William Brown escaped from slavery as a child. Brown was still considered a slave at the time of this novel's publication. Brown was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel and fiction. Clotel or the President's Daughter has been considered the first African-American novel. It was published in London in 1853. Brown hoped that his work would influence the British to help with the abolitionist movement in the United States. Four versions of Clotel, published between 1853 and 1867 include Clotel; or the President's Daughter: a Narrative of Slave Life in the United States, London, Partridge and amp; Oakey, 1953; Miralda; or, The Beautiful Quadroon. A Romance of American Slavery, Founded on Fact, In Sixteen Installments, New York. Weekly Anglo African, December 1, 1860 to March 16, 1861; Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States, Boston: J. Redpath, 1864; Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine, A Tale of the Southern States, Boston: Lee and amp; Shepard, 1867
Clotelle; Or, the Colored Heroine, a Tale of the Southern States
Author: William Wells William Wells BrownPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781491088791
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
FOR many years the South has been noted for its beautiful Quadroon women. Bottles of ink, and reams of paper, have been used to portray the "finely-cut and well-moulded features," the "silken curls," the "dark and brilliant eyes," the "splendid forms," the "fascinating smiles," and "accomplished manners" of these impassioned and voluptuous daughters of the two races, -the unlawful product of the crime of human bondage. When we take into consideration the fact that no safeguard was ever thrown around virtue, and no inducement held out to slave-women to be pure and chaste, we will not be surprised when told that immorality pervades the domestic circle in the cities and towns of the South to an extent unknown in the Northern States. Many a planter's wife has dragged out a miserable existence, with an aching heart, at seeing her place in the husband's affections usurped by the unadorned beauty and captivating smiles of her waiting-maid. Indeed, the greater portion of the colored women, in the days of slavery, had no greater aspiration than that of becoming the finely-dressed mistress of some white man. At the negro balls and parties, that used to be so frequently given, this class of women generally made the most splendid appearance.
If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie Tie-In)
Author: James BaldwinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525566120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" (The New York Times Book Review). "One of the best books Baldwin has ever written—perhaps the best of all." —The Philadelphia Inquirer Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions—affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.