Clotel; or, The president's daughterAuthor William Wells Brown was an escaped slave from Kentucky active on the anti-slavery circuit. He published Clotel in London, where he stayed to evade recapture under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. The book is considered the first novel published by an African American. |
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“ Man's love is of man's life , a thing apart ; ' Tis woman's whole existence . " — Byr0n . a moss . The clock on a neighbouring church had scarcely ceased striking three , when the servant announced that a carriage had called for Mr.
“ Man's love is of man's life , a thing apart ; ' Tis woman's whole existence . " — Byr0n . a moss . The clock on a neighbouring church had scarcely ceased striking three , when the servant announced that a carriage had called for Mr.
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American answered appearance arrival asked beautiful better Bible boat brought Brown called Carlton cause child Christian Clotel cloth coloured daughter death dollars entered escape eyes face father fear feel felt freedom fugitive gave George girl give given Green hand head hear heard heart hope hour human hundred labour lady land leave liberty live look master meet morning mother negro never night once Orleans owner passed Peck persons poor purchase Quaker received remained replied returned road seated seemed seen servant side slave slavery society sold soon standing taken tell thought thousand told took town true turned waiting whole wife wish woman young
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Página 110 - Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Página 173 - ... pure religion and undefiled before God, even the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Página 145 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Página 166 - Who can. with patience, for a moment see The medley mass of pride and misery, Of whips and charters, manacles and rights, Of slaving blacks and democratic whites. And all the piebald polity that reigns In free confusion o'er Columbia's plains?
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| Título | Clotel; or, The president's daughter |
| Autor | William Wells Brown |
| Editor | Patridge and Oakley, 1853 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 11 Jul 2006 |
| N.º de páginas | 250 páginas |
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