Clotel or, the President's Daughter : a narrative of slave life in the United States

Name/Title

Clotel or, the President's Daughter : a narrative of slave life in the United States

Entry/Object ID

Library.921

Description

"The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery."

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Relations with women--Fiction., African American families--Fiction., Children of presidents--Fiction., African American women--Fiction., Illegitimate children--Fiction., Racially mixed people--Fiction., Women slaves--Fiction.

Publication Details

Author

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.