Clotel: or, The President's Daughter (Penguin Classics)
William Wells Brown’s Clotel: or, The President’s Daughter is a landmark of African American literature. Set against the institution of slavery, this pioneering novel explores freedom, race, family, identity, and the contradictions between America’s democratic ideals and its history of enslavement.
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Clotel: or, The President’s Daughter is a pioneering work by William Wells Brown, an important nineteenth-century African American author.
Published in the context of American slavery and abolitionism, the novel examines race, freedom, family, and identity.
Its title invokes the daughter of a president, placing questions of national ideals alongside the realities of enslavement.
This Penguin Classics edition presents a significant text in the history of African American literature and the American novel.
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