Clotel
By: by William Wells Brown ; edited by Christopher Mulvey
Contributors: Mulvey, Christopher; Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884; Farrison, William Edward, 1902-
Edition: Electronic scholarly ed.
Publisher: The University of Virginia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Charlottesville, Va
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813925684
Subjects: Fiction; Relations with women; African American families; Children of presidents; African American women; Racially mixed people; Women slaves
Description: The first African American novel, Clotel was published when its author was still legally a slave. This digital edition presents, for the first time together, the full extant texts of the novel's four versions, published between 1853 and 1867. Imaged and coded, the fully searchable texts may be read individually or in parallel and are accompanied by generous biographical, critical, and historical commentary as well as line-by-line annotations and textual collation.
Notes: Title from home page (viewed on July 28, 2008).

Includes the four versions of Clotel, published between 1853 and 1867: Clotel; or the President's Daughter: a Narrative of Slave Life in the United States, London, Partridge & Oakey, 1953 ; Miralda; or, The Beautiful Quadroon. A Romance of American Slavery, Founded on Fact, In Sixteen Installments, New York. Weekly Anglo African, December 1, 1860 to March 16, 1861 ; Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States, Boston: J. Redpath, 1864 ; Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine, A Tale of the Southern States, Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1867.

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