Clotel: or, The Presidents Daughter

"Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States" is an 1853 novel written by American author and playwright William Wells Brown. The story revolves around the titular Clotel and her sister, two fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson, and explores the devastating effect slavery had on African-American families. William Wells Brown (c. 1814-1884) was an American playwright, novelist, historian, and prominent abolitionist lecturer. Born a slave, he ...