Clotel; or, The President's Daughter

William Wells Brown

20 issues
• 1853 •
Clotel and her sister, though daughters of Thomas Jefferson, are slaves. Considered the first novel published by an African American in the U.S., this fast-paced story explores the horrors and hypocrisy of early America.
Genres: race, african-american, fiction, 19th-century, cultural, historical-fiction, literature, historical
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