Research Catalog

Title

Clotelle, or, The colored heroine : a tale of the southern states / by William Wells Brown, author of "Sketches of places and people abroad," "The black man," "The negro in the American rebellion," &c.

Author

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.

Publication

Boston : Lee & Shepard, 149 Washington Street, 1867.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Anelay, Henry, 1817-1883
• Johnston, J. (Engraver)
• Lee and Shepard, publisher.
• Geo. C. Rand & Avery, printer.
• N. Orr & Co., engraver.

Description

114 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill.; 19 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

• Clotelle
• Colored heroine

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
• Racially mixed people > United States > Fiction
• Slavery > United States > Fiction
• Enslaved women > Fiction
• Southern States > Fiction
• Virginia > Fiction

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• Originally published in 1853 under the title: Clotel, or, The president's daughter.
• "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by William Wells Brown, In the Clerk's Office of the DIstrict Court of the District of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• 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)

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

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "Emma A. Morrill. July 9th 1867" ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. The Southern 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. A 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 -- ch. 36. The return home -- ch. 37. The angel of mercy -- ch. 38. The great tunnel and the mistake -- ch. 39. Conclusion.

Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-B (Brown, W. Clotelle. 1867)

OCLC

2853372

Author

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.

Title

Clotelle, or, The colored heroine : a tale of the southern states / by William Wells Brown, author of "Sketches of places and people abroad," "The black man," "The negro in the American rebellion," &c.

Imprint

Boston : Lee & Shepard, 149 Washington Street, 1867.

Indexed In:

Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875, 391

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-B (Brown, W. Clotelle. 1867) (accession no. B526322) inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "Emma A. Morrill. July 9th 1867" ; 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

Anelay, Henry, 1817-1883, ill.

Johnston, J. (Engraver), engraver.

Lee and Shepard, publisher.

Geo. C. Rand & Avery, printer.

N. Orr & Co., engraver.

Morrill, Emma A., former owner, inscriber.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-B (Brown, W. Clotelle. 1867)