Clotel: Or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (Bedford Cultural Editions Series)
Description
Clotel; or The President's Daughter (1853), the first published novel by an African American, has recently emerged as a canonical text for courses in African American as well as nineteenth-century American literature courses. The story was inspired by the rumored sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, and this edition of Clotel is the only one to reprint selections from the key texts and cultural documents that Brown drew on (and even appropriated) when he wrote his novel. The streamlined second edition includes an updated introduction that inco...
ISBN(s)
0312621078, 9780312621070
