![]() ![]() ![]() Main article: Jefferson–Hemings controversy They confront many hardships, with the women taking heroic action to preserve their families. The women's relatively comfortable lives end after Jefferson's death. The novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." Featuring an enslaved mixed-race woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson, it is considered a tragic mulatto story. Three additional versions were published through 1867. Set in the early nineteenth century, it is considered the first novel published by an African American and is set in the United States. He was staying after a lecture tour to evade possible recapture due to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. Brown, who escaped from slavery in 1834 at the age of 20, published the book in London. ![]() Clotel or, the President's Daughter at Project GutenbergĬlotel or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown about Clotel and her sister, fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. ![]()
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