William Wells Brown
Clotel: or, the President's Daughter
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Feb. 1, 2017)
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown about Clotel and her sister, fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. Brown, who escaped from slavery in 1834 at the age of 20, published the book in London. He was staying after a lecture tour to evade possible recapture due to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. Set in the early nineteenth century, it is considered the first novel published by an African American and is set in the United States.
- ISBN
- 1542851009 / 9781542851008
- Pages
- 174
- Weight
- 11.4 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.4 in.
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