Clotel; or, The President's daughter
Subtitle: a narrative of slave life in the United States.
By: With an introd. and notes by William Edward Farrison.
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: 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; Southern States -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: An antislavery novel, the first by an American black writer, it does not make a great deal of TJ's parentage of Clotel, but it does quote him on the evils of slavery and then accuse him of hypocrisy. -- Frank Shuffelton.
Notes: "Textually the same as the first edition ... published in London in 1853."