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Clotel, or, The president's daughter : a narrative of slave life in the United States /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Other Authors: Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2011]
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Bedford cultural editions.
Subjects:
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826 > Relations with women > Fiction.
Brown, William Wells, > 1814?-1884. > Clotel.
Children of presidents > Fiction.
African American families > Fiction.
Racially mixed people > Fiction.
African American women > Fiction.
Women slaves > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Description
Item Description:"The second edition includes an updated introduction that incorporates recent scholarship on the novel and on the Jefferson-Hemings relationship. The cultural documents have been reorganized and augmented with new materials to focus on Jefferson's contradictory status as revolutionary and slaveholder, on source texts about slavery and race, and on Brown's creative process.""--P. [4] cover."
Physical Description:xvii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-424).
ISBN:9780312621070 (pbk.)
0312621078 (pbk.)