The Clotel/Miralda/Clotelle, so revealed, evolving as history evolved, shows itself to be a masterpiece of the nineteenth-century American novel. An electronic scholarly edition created in 2006 unites the four versions in a hypertext that embeds each version in its original epitext. First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of. Reception was hampered by the fact that many critics believed the version they were reading was the only version, and the different versions were regularly treated as separate novels. Slave women heroines, white in appearance, led Black militant critics in the 1970s to find the novel insufficiently Black. Brown: 9780679783237 : Books The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate. Presidents Daughter, A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States, in 1853. The story evolves from an abolitionist novel to a post-abolitionist romance, radically changing each time. William Wells Brown published the first African American Novel, Clotel or The. Graves is now dead, and all three of them are about to go on the auction block. Brown published three further versions of Clotel: as Miralda in 1860, as Clotelle in 1864 and as Clotelle again in 1867. At one such ball, the beautiful 16-year-old Clotel attracts the attention of a young white man, Horatio Green, just back from college, who promises to buy her, set her free and make her mistress of her own household. William Wells Brown’s Clotel or the President’s Daughter (London, 1853) gives a fictive account of the slave daughters and granddaughters of Thomas Jefferson.
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