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Clotel

by William Wells Brown

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  1. 00 - Memoir of the Author

    3:22

  2. 01 - The Negro Sale

    17:29

  3. 02 - Going to the South

    13:53

  4. 03 - The Negro Chase

    10:03

  5. 04 - The Quadroon's Home

    6:02

  6. 05 - The Slave Master

    6:45

  7. 06 - The Religious Teacher

    25:44

  8. 07 - The Poor Whites, South

    10:34

  9. 08 - The Separation

    9:05

  10. 09- The Man of Honor

    3:16

  11. 10- The Young Christian

    13:00

  12. 11- The Parson Poet

    6:15

  13. 12- A Night in the Parson's Kitchen

    10:10

  14. 13- A Slave Hunt

    11:14

  15. 14- A Free Woman Reduced to Slavery

    6:45

  16. 15- Today a Mistress,Tomorrow a Slave

    5:55

  17. 16- Death of the Parson

    9:20

  18. 17- Retaliation

    5:12

  19. 18- The Liberator

    13:37

  20. 19- Escape of Clotel

    25:40

  21. 20- A True Democrat

    8:45

  22. 21- The Christian's Death

    13:26

  23. 22- A Ride in a Stage Coach

    21:19

  24. 23- Truth Stranger Than Fiction

    12:02

  25. 24- The Arrest

    9:36

  26. 25- Death is Freedom

    10:49

  27. 26- The Escape

    16:33

  28. 27- The Mystery

    6:44

  29. 28-29-The Happy Meeting and The Conclusion

    18:35

Clotel (1853) is a public domain work.

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Often cited as the first novel published by an African American, this 1853 work confronts slavery through the story of Clotel and her sister, imagined as the enslaved daughters of Thomas Jefferson. After the president's death, the women and their mother are sold apart, scattered through a system that treats human beings as property to be bartered, mortgaged, and abused. Brown, himself a fugitive from slavery, weaves real speeches, documents, and reported incidents into the narrative to expose the gap between the young republic's stated ideals and its daily practice. The result is both a suspenseful story of separated families and a pointed abolitionist argument. Its portrait of the founder's mixed-race children made it especially incendiary in its day. This free PDF and EPUB edition preserves a landmark of American literature.

Contents

  1. Preface to the 1853 Edition
  2. Narrative of the Life and Escape of William Wells Brown
  3. Epigraph
  4. Clotel
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William Wells Brown

William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was born into slavery in Kentucky and escaped to freedom in 1834. He became a prominent abolitionist lecturer, historian, and man of letters, producing what is regarded as the first novel and one of the first plays written by an African American.

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Pages
194
Language
English
Formats
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