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PART ONE
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter:
The Complete Text
Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background
Chronology of Brown's Life and Times
A Note on the Text and Annotations
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter [1853 Edition]
PART TWO
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter:
Cultural Contexts
1. Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson, A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled
Thomas Jefferson, from Notes on the State of Virginia
Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson, Letter Exchange (1791)
David Walker, from Walker's Appeal
William Lloyd Garrison, To the Public
Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
2. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
*James Callender, The President, Again
Frances Trollope, from Domestic Manners of the Americans
William Goodell, Sale of a Daughter of Tho's Jefferson
Jefferson's Daughter
James McCune Smith, Letter to Frederick Douglass' Paper
*Madison Hemings, from Life among the Lowly
3. “All These Combined Have Made Up My Story”: Source Texts about Slavery and Race
Thomas Bacon, from Sermons Addressed to Masters and Servants
Andrew Jackson, Two Proclamations
Thomas R. Gray, from The Confessions of Nat Turner
Theodore Dwight Weld, from American Slavery As It Is
*Harriet Martineau, from Society in America
Lydia Maria Child, The Quadroons
Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Quadroon's Story
*Frederick Douglass, from Reception Speech at Finsbury Chapel
Grace Greenwood, The Leap from Long Bridge
Daniel Webster, from The Constitution and the Union
*Martin R. Delany, from The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
4. Writing and Revising Clotel
William Wells Brown, from Narrative of William W. Brown
Josephine Brown, from Biography of an American Bondman
William Wells Brown, from The New Liberty Party
*William Wells Brown, from A Lecture Delivered before the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem
William Wells Brown, Singular Escape
William Wells Brown, from Original Panoramic Views
*William Wells Brown, A True Story of Slave Life
*William Wells Brown, Letters from London
*Selected Reviews of Clotel
William Wells Brown, from St. Domingo: Its Revolutions and Its Patriots
William Wells Brown, from Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
William Wells Brown, from Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine
William Wells Brown, Battle of Milliken's Bend
William Wells Brown, from My Southern Home
Selected Bibliography