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Clotel, or, The president's daughter : a narrative of slave life in the United States, William Wells Brown ; edited by Robert S. Levine
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- Summary
- From the Publisher: William Wells Brown's Clotel (1853), the first novel written by an African American, was published in London while Brown was still legally regarded as "property" within the borders of the United States. The documents in this edition include excerpts from Brown's sources for the novel-fiction, political essays, sermons, and presidential proclamations; selections that illuminate the range of contemporary attitudes concerning race, slavery, and prejudice; and pieces that advocate various methods of resistance and reform
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 527 pages
- Note
- Includes works or excerpts from works contemporary with the main text
- Contents
-
- About the series -- About this volume -- List of illustrations -- Part One: Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter: The Complete Text -- Introduction: Cultural and historical background -- Chronology of Brown's life and times -- Note on the text and annotations -- Clotel; or, The President's Daughter [1853 edition] -- Part Two: Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter: Cultural Contexts -- 1: Sources and revisions -- Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled / Thomas Jefferson -- Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope -- Sale of a daughter of Tho's Jefferson / William Goodell -- Jefferson's daughter / Anonymous -- Letter to Frederick Douglass' paper / James McCune Smith -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass -- Sermons addressed to masters and servants / Thomas Bacon -- Two proclamations / Andrew Jackson -- American slavery as it is / Theodore Dwight Weld -- New Liberty Party / William Wells Brown -- Singular escape / William Wells Brown -- Quadroons / Lydia Maria Child -- Quadroon's story / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Leap from the Long Bridge; an incident at Washington / Grace Greenwood -- Narrative of William W Brown / William Wells Brown -- Biography of an American bondman / Josephine Brown -- Original panoramic views / William Wells Brown -- Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States / William Wells Brown -- Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine / William Wells Brown -- 2: Race, Slavery, Prejudice -- Notes on the State of Virginia / Thomas Jefferson -- Letter exchange (1791) / Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson -- Walker's appeal / David Walker -- African colonization / Henry Clay -- Review of the debate in the Virginia legislature / Thomas R Dew -- On the reception of abolition petitions / John C Calhoun -- Inquiry into the scriptural views of slavery / Albert Barnes -- Southern customs-Madame Chevalier / Martin R Delany -- Colorphobia in New York! / Frederick Douglass -- Types of mankind / Josiah C Nott and George R Gliddon -- Diseases and peculiarities of the Negro race / Samuel A Cartwright -- Constitution and the union / Daniel Webster -- Sociology for the South / George Fitzhugh -- South-side view of slavery / Nehemiah Adams -- Planter's northern bride / Caroline Lee Hentz -- What slaves are taught to think of the North / Harriet Jacobs -- Prohibition of colored persons / Walt Whitman
- 3: Resistance And Reform -- Confessions of Nat Turner -- To the public / William Lloyd Garrison -- Appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans / Lydia Maria Child -- Appeal to the Christian women of the South / Angelina E Grimke -- Rights of Women / Frederick Douglass -- I am a woman's rights / Sojourner Truth -- Address, delivered at the African Masonic Hall / Maria W Stewart -- Responsibility of colored people in the free states / Samuel E Cornish -- Colored people in America / Frances E W Harper -- Address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet -- Report of the Committee on Abolition (1847) / National Convention of Colored People -- Resolutions adopted (1853) / Colored National Convention -- Political destiny of the colored race on the American continent / Martin R Delany -- Declaration of Wrongs and Rights (1864) / National Convention of Colored Men -- St Domingo: its revolutions and its patriots / William Wells Brown -- Plea for Captain John Brown / Henry David Thoreau -- Battle of Milliken's Bend / William Wells Brown -- My Southern Home / William Wells Brown -- Selected bibliography
- Isbn
- 9780312152659
- Label
- Clotel, or, The president's daughter : a narrative of slave life in the United States
- Title
- Clotel, or, The president's daughter
- Title remainder
- a narrative of slave life in the United States
- Statement of responsibility
- William Wells Brown ; edited by Robert S. Levine
- Title variation
-
- Clotel
- President's daughter
- Subject
-
- Domestic fiction
- African American families -- Fiction
- African American women -- Fiction
- Women slaves -- Fiction
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with women -- Fiction
- Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
- Racially mixed people -- Fiction
- Children of presidents -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Brown, William Wells
- Domestic fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From the Publisher: William Wells Brown's Clotel (1853), the first novel written by an African American, was published in London while Brown was still legally regarded as "property" within the borders of the United States. The documents in this edition include excerpts from Brown's sources for the novel-fiction, political essays, sermons, and presidential proclamations; selections that illuminate the range of contemporary attitudes concerning race, slavery, and prejudice; and pieces that advocate various methods of resistance and reform
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1814?-1884
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brown, William Wells
- Dewey number
- 813/.4
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS1139.B9
- LC item number
- C53 2000b
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Levine, Robert S.
- Series statement
- Bedford cultural editions
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Jefferson, Thomas
- Brown, William Wells
- Brown, William Wells
- Children of presidents
- African American families
- Racially mixed people
- African American women
- Women slaves
- Label
- Clotel, or, The president's daughter : a narrative of slave life in the United States, William Wells Brown ; edited by Robert S. Levine
- Link
- Note
- Includes works or excerpts from works contemporary with the main text
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-527)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- About the series -- About this volume -- List of illustrations -- Part One: Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter: The Complete Text -- Introduction: Cultural and historical background -- Chronology of Brown's life and times -- Note on the text and annotations -- Clotel; or, The President's Daughter [1853 edition] -- Part Two: Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter: Cultural Contexts -- 1: Sources and revisions -- Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled / Thomas Jefferson -- Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope -- Sale of a daughter of Tho's Jefferson / William Goodell -- Jefferson's daughter / Anonymous -- Letter to Frederick Douglass' paper / James McCune Smith -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass -- Sermons addressed to masters and servants / Thomas Bacon -- Two proclamations / Andrew Jackson -- American slavery as it is / Theodore Dwight Weld -- New Liberty Party / William Wells Brown -- Singular escape / William Wells Brown -- Quadroons / Lydia Maria Child -- Quadroon's story / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Leap from the Long Bridge; an incident at Washington / Grace Greenwood -- Narrative of William W Brown / William Wells Brown -- Biography of an American bondman / Josephine Brown -- Original panoramic views / William Wells Brown -- Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States / William Wells Brown -- Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine / William Wells Brown -- 2: Race, Slavery, Prejudice -- Notes on the State of Virginia / Thomas Jefferson -- Letter exchange (1791) / Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson -- Walker's appeal / David Walker -- African colonization / Henry Clay -- Review of the debate in the Virginia legislature / Thomas R Dew -- On the reception of abolition petitions / John C Calhoun -- Inquiry into the scriptural views of slavery / Albert Barnes -- Southern customs-Madame Chevalier / Martin R Delany -- Colorphobia in New York! / Frederick Douglass -- Types of mankind / Josiah C Nott and George R Gliddon -- Diseases and peculiarities of the Negro race / Samuel A Cartwright -- Constitution and the union / Daniel Webster -- Sociology for the South / George Fitzhugh -- South-side view of slavery / Nehemiah Adams -- Planter's northern bride / Caroline Lee Hentz -- What slaves are taught to think of the North / Harriet Jacobs -- Prohibition of colored persons / Walt Whitman
- 3: Resistance And Reform -- Confessions of Nat Turner -- To the public / William Lloyd Garrison -- Appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans / Lydia Maria Child -- Appeal to the Christian women of the South / Angelina E Grimke -- Rights of Women / Frederick Douglass -- I am a woman's rights / Sojourner Truth -- Address, delivered at the African Masonic Hall / Maria W Stewart -- Responsibility of colored people in the free states / Samuel E Cornish -- Colored people in America / Frances E W Harper -- Address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet -- Report of the Committee on Abolition (1847) / National Convention of Colored People -- Resolutions adopted (1853) / Colored National Convention -- Political destiny of the colored race on the American continent / Martin R Delany -- Declaration of Wrongs and Rights (1864) / National Convention of Colored Men -- St Domingo: its revolutions and its patriots / William Wells Brown -- Plea for Captain John Brown / Henry David Thoreau -- Battle of Milliken's Bend / William Wells Brown -- My Southern Home / William Wells Brown -- Selected bibliography
- Control code
- ocm43513789
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 527 pages
- Isbn
- 9780312152659
- Lccn
- 99065091
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o43513789
- (OCoLC)43513789
- Label
- Clotel, or, The president's daughter : a narrative of slave life in the United States, William Wells Brown ; edited by Robert S. Levine
- Link
- Note
- Includes works or excerpts from works contemporary with the main text
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-527)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- About the series -- About this volume -- List of illustrations -- Part One: Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter: The Complete Text -- Introduction: Cultural and historical background -- Chronology of Brown's life and times -- Note on the text and annotations -- Clotel; or, The President's Daughter [1853 edition] -- Part Two: Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter: Cultural Contexts -- 1: Sources and revisions -- Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled / Thomas Jefferson -- Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope -- Sale of a daughter of Tho's Jefferson / William Goodell -- Jefferson's daughter / Anonymous -- Letter to Frederick Douglass' paper / James McCune Smith -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass -- Sermons addressed to masters and servants / Thomas Bacon -- Two proclamations / Andrew Jackson -- American slavery as it is / Theodore Dwight Weld -- New Liberty Party / William Wells Brown -- Singular escape / William Wells Brown -- Quadroons / Lydia Maria Child -- Quadroon's story / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Leap from the Long Bridge; an incident at Washington / Grace Greenwood -- Narrative of William W Brown / William Wells Brown -- Biography of an American bondman / Josephine Brown -- Original panoramic views / William Wells Brown -- Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States / William Wells Brown -- Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine / William Wells Brown -- 2: Race, Slavery, Prejudice -- Notes on the State of Virginia / Thomas Jefferson -- Letter exchange (1791) / Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson -- Walker's appeal / David Walker -- African colonization / Henry Clay -- Review of the debate in the Virginia legislature / Thomas R Dew -- On the reception of abolition petitions / John C Calhoun -- Inquiry into the scriptural views of slavery / Albert Barnes -- Southern customs-Madame Chevalier / Martin R Delany -- Colorphobia in New York! / Frederick Douglass -- Types of mankind / Josiah C Nott and George R Gliddon -- Diseases and peculiarities of the Negro race / Samuel A Cartwright -- Constitution and the union / Daniel Webster -- Sociology for the South / George Fitzhugh -- South-side view of slavery / Nehemiah Adams -- Planter's northern bride / Caroline Lee Hentz -- What slaves are taught to think of the North / Harriet Jacobs -- Prohibition of colored persons / Walt Whitman
- 3: Resistance And Reform -- Confessions of Nat Turner -- To the public / William Lloyd Garrison -- Appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans / Lydia Maria Child -- Appeal to the Christian women of the South / Angelina E Grimke -- Rights of Women / Frederick Douglass -- I am a woman's rights / Sojourner Truth -- Address, delivered at the African Masonic Hall / Maria W Stewart -- Responsibility of colored people in the free states / Samuel E Cornish -- Colored people in America / Frances E W Harper -- Address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet -- Report of the Committee on Abolition (1847) / National Convention of Colored People -- Resolutions adopted (1853) / Colored National Convention -- Political destiny of the colored race on the American continent / Martin R Delany -- Declaration of Wrongs and Rights (1864) / National Convention of Colored Men -- St Domingo: its revolutions and its patriots / William Wells Brown -- Plea for Captain John Brown / Henry David Thoreau -- Battle of Milliken's Bend / William Wells Brown -- My Southern Home / William Wells Brown -- Selected bibliography
- Control code
- ocm43513789
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 527 pages
- Isbn
- 9780312152659
- Lccn
- 99065091
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o43513789
- (OCoLC)43513789
Subject
- African American families -- Fiction
- African American women -- Fiction
- Brown, William Wells
- Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
- Children of presidents -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with women -- Fiction
- Racially mixed people -- Fiction
- Women slaves -- Fiction
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