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Title

Clotel, or, The President's daughter : a narrative of slave life in the United States / by William Wells Brown, a fugitive slave, author of "Three years in Europe" ; with a sketch of the author's life.

Author

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.

Publication

London : Partridge & Oakey, Paternoster Row, and 70 Edgware Road, 1853.

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Details

Additional Authors

Partridge and Oakey, publisher.

Description

viii, 245, [3] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill.; 18 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

• Clotel
• President's daughter

Subjects

• African American families > Fiction
• Advertisements > England > London > 19th century
• Virginia > Fiction
• Hemings, Sally > Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Southern States > Fiction
• Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 > Relations with women > Fiction
• Insertions (Provenance)
• Racially mixed people > Fiction
• Children of presidents > Fiction
• African American women > Fiction
• Black author
• Hemings family > Fiction
• Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Jefferson family > Fiction
• Women slaves > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Advertisements – England – London – 19th century.
• Domestic fiction.
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Insertions (Provenance)

Note

• "Partridge and Oakey, printers, Paddington."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• Advertisements, p. [2]-[3] at end.

Indexed In (note)

• British Museum. General catalogue of printed books to 1955 (compact edition)
• Dumond, D.L. Bibliography of antislavery in America

Provenance (note)

• with the bookplate on the back of the frontispiece plate "From the Library of Arthur A. Schomburg" ; with a newspaper clipping about the work affixed to the recto of the first free endleaf ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Memoir of the author -- The Negro sale -- Going to the South -- The Negro chase -- The Quadroon's home -- The slave market -- The religious teacher -- The poor whites, South -- The separation -- The man of honour -- The young Christian -- The parson poet -- A night in the parson's kitchen -- A slave hunt -- A free woman reduced to slavery -- To-day a mistress, to-morrow a slave -- Death of the parson -- Retaliation -- The liberator -- Escape of Clotel -- A true Democrat -- The Christian's death -- A ride in a state coach -- Truth stranger than fiction -- Death is freedom -- The escape -- The mystery -- The happy meeting -- Conclusion.

Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-B (Brown, W. Clotel. 1853)

OCLC

11492436

Author

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.

Title

Clotel, or, The President's daughter : a narrative of slave life in the United States / by William Wells Brown, a fugitive slave, author of "Three years in Europe" ; with a sketch of the author's life.

Publisher

London : Partridge & Oakey, Paternoster Row, and 70 Edgware Road, 1853.

Indexed In:

British Museum. General catalogue of printed books to 1955 (compact edition), v. 4, p. 330, col. 1180

Dumond, D.L. Bibliography of antislavery in America, p. 33

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-B (Brown, W. Clotel. 1853) (accession no. B884584) with the bookplate on the back of the frontispiece plate "From the Library of Arthur A. Schomburg" ; with a newspaper clipping about the work affixed to the recto of the first free endleaf ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Partridge and Oakey, publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-B (Brown, W. Clotel. 1853)