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Clotel: Or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (Bedford Cultural Editions) by William Wells Brown is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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William Wells Brown’s Clotel (1853), the first novel written by an African American, was published in London while Brown was still legally regarded as "property" within the borders of the United States. The novel was inspired by the story of Thomas Jefferson’s purported sexual relationship with his slave Sally Hemings. Brown fictionalizes the stories of Jefferson’s mistress, daughters, and granddaughters — all of whom are slaves — in order to demythologize the dominant U.S. cultural narrative ce

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Author

William Wells Brown

Publisher

Bedford/St. Martin's [u.a

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312152659

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25