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Clotel, Or, the President's Daughter (Penguin Classics)
Clotel Or the President's Daughter - Penguin Classics
Author: William Wells Brown, M. Giulia Fabi
First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves. The story begins with the auction of his mistress, here called Currer, and their two daughters, Clotel and Althesa. The Virginian who buys Clotel falls in love with her, gets her pregnant, s...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780142437728
ISBN-10: 0142437727
Publication Date: 12/30/2003
Pages: 285
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
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A fictional imagining of Thomas Jefferson's Mulatto children and what their destinies might have been. What would people think if they knew that a president's daughter was forced into the slave trade of the Deep South?


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