Clotel: or, The President's DaughterPenguin, 30 dic 2003 - 320 páginas 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, seems to promise marriage—then sells her. Escaping from the slave dealer, Clotel returns to Virginia disguised as a white man in order to rescue her daughter, Mary, a slave in her father’s house. A fast-paced and harrowing tale of slavery and freedom, of the hypocrisies of a nation founded on democratic principles, Clotel is more than a sensationalist novel. It is a founding text of the African American novelistic tradition, a brilliantly composed and richly detailed exploration of human relations in a new world in which race is a cultural construct. • First time in Penguin Classics • Includes appendices that show the different endings Brown created for the various later versions of Clotel, along with the author's narrative of his "Life and Escape," Introduction, suggested readings, and comprehensive explanatory notes |
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Índice
The Negro Sale | 43 |
Going to the South | 52 |
The Negro Chase | 59 |
The Quadroons Home | 64 |
The Slave Market | 67 |
The Religious Teacher | 71 |
The Poor Whites South | 83 |
The Separation | 88 |
The Liberator | 132 |
Escape of Clotel | 139 |
A True Democrat | 151 |
The Christians Death | 155 |
A Ride in a StageCoach | 161 |
Truth Stranger than Fiction | 172 |
The Arrest | 178 |
Death Is Freedom | 183 |
The Man of Honour | 92 |
The Young Christian | 94 |
The Parson Poet | 101 |
A Night in the Parsons Kitchen | 105 |
A Slave Hunting Parson | 110 |
A Free Woman Reduced to Slavery | 116 |
ToDay a Mistress ToMorrow a Slave | 120 |
Death of the Parson | 123 |
Retaliation | 129 |
The Escape | 188 |
The Mystery | 197 |
The Happy Meeting | 200 |
Conclusion | 208 |
From Miralda or The Beautiful Quadroon 18601861 | 211 |
From Clotelle A Tale of the Southern States 1864 | 226 |
From Clotelle or The Colored Heroine A Tale of the Southern States 1867 | 236 |
Explanatory Notes | 249 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter: in large print William Wells Brown Vista previa restringida - 2022 |
Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter: in large print William Wells Brown Vista previa restringida - 2023 |
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