Research Catalog

Title

Clotelle : a tale of the Southern States / by W.W. Brown.

Author

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.

Publication

Boston : James Redpath, publisher, 221 Washington Street ; New York : H. Dexter, Hamilton & Co., [1864]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Redpath, James, 1833-1891
• Anelay, Henry, 1817-1883
• Johnston, J. (Engraver)
• H. Dexter, Hamilton & Co., publisher.
• Geo. C. Rand & Avery, printer.
• N. Orr & Co., engraver.

Description

104 p. : ill.; 16 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Series Statement

Redpath's books for the camp fires ; no. 2

Uniform Title

Redpath's books for the camp fires ; no. 2.

Subject

• Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 > Relations with women > Fiction
• Hemings, Sally > Fiction
• Hemings family > Fiction
• Jefferson family > Fiction
• Children of presidents > Fiction
• African American families > Fiction
• African American women > Fiction
• Racially mixed people > Fiction
• Enslaved women > Fiction
• Southern States > Fiction
• Virginia > Fiction

Genre/Form

Ink stamps (Provenance)

Note

• Originally published in England in 1853 under title: Clotel; or, The president's daughter.
• Front wrapper with series title; series advertisement (verso front wrapper) lists Clotelle as no. II.
• "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by James Redpath, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "Boston: Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery."--printer statemeny, colophon, p. 104.
• Includes illustration by H. Anelay, engraved by J. Johnston; one engraving by N. Orr Co, and one engraving by J. Johnston. Other illustrations are unsigned.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
• Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875

Provenance (note)

• with the ink stamp on frontispiece: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. The slave's social circle -- ch. 2. The Negro sale -- ch. 3. The slave-speculator -- ch. 4. The boat-race -- ch. 5. The young mother -- ch. 6. The slave-market -- ch. 7. The slave-holding parson -- ch. 8. A night in the parson's kitchen -- ch. 9. The man of honor -- ch. 10. The quadroon's home -- ch. 11. To-day a mistress, to-morrow a slave -- ch. 12. The mother-in-law -- ch. 13. A hard-hearted woman -- ch. 14. The prison -- ch. 15. The arrest -- ch. 16. Death is freedom -- ch. 17. Clotelle -- ch. 18. A slave-hunting parson -- ch. 19. The true heroine -- ch. 20. The hero of many adventures -- ch. 21. Self-sacrifice -- ch. 22. Love at first sight and what followed -- ch. 23. Meeting of the cousins -- ch. 24. The law and its victim -- ch. 25. The flight -- ch. 26. The hero of a night -- ch. 27. True freedom -- ch. 28. Farewell to America -- ch. 29. A stranger in a strange land -- ch. 30. New friends -- ch. 31. The mysterious meeting -- ch. 32. The happy meeting -- ch. 33. The happy day -- ch. 34. Clotelle meets her father -- ch. 35. The father's resolve.

Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-B (Brown, W. Clotelle. 1864)

OCLC

6026014

Author

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.

Title

Clotelle : a tale of the Southern States / by W.W. Brown.

Imprint

Boston : James Redpath, publisher, 221 Washington Street ; New York : H. Dexter, Hamilton & Co., [1864]

Series

Redpath's books for the camp fires ; no. 2

Redpath's books for the camp fires ; no. 2.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 1724

Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875, 390

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-B (Brown, W. Clotelle. 1864) (accession no. B885329) with the ink stamp on frontispiece: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-B (Brown, W. Clotelle. 1864) imperfect; lacking printed wrappers with series title and advertisements. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Redpath, James, 1833-1891, publisher.

Anelay, Henry, 1817-1883, ill.

Johnston, J. (Engraver), engraver.

H. Dexter, Hamilton & Co., publisher.

Geo. C. Rand & Avery, printer.

N. Orr & Co., engraver.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-B (Brown, W. Clotelle. 1864)