The tasteful hand of art had not learned to imitate the lavish beauty and harmonious disorder of nature, but they lived together in loving amity, and spoke in accordant tones. The pride of China mixed its oriental looking foliage with the majestic magnolia, and the air was redolent with the fragrance of flowers, peeping out of every nook and nodding upon you with a most unexpected welcome. The piazzas that surrounded it were covered with clematis and passion flower. Among them was one far retired from the public roads, and almost hidden among the trees. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today!ĪBOUT three miles from Richmond is a pleasant plain, with here and there a beautiful cottage surrounded by trees so as scarcely to be seen. Brown had escaped from slavery in Kentucky while still in his youth, and became active on the anti-slavery circuit.The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.
It is considered to be the first novel written by an African American.īrown used the injustices of slavery to demonstrate the destructive effects it had on the African American family, most significantly the so-called tragic mulatto. Brown was still considered someone else's legal property within the borders of the United States at the time of its publication. It gained notoriety amid the unconfirmed rumors regarding Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. The separation of these three women is just the beginning of the injustices they face. Clotel is bought by her lover Horatio Green. In the end, Currer and Althesea are auctioned to the notorious slave trader, Dick Walker. Because she was beautiful and the mistress of Jefferson, Currer and her daughters lived a confortable life, this changed when her master passes away. In the novel, Currer is the former mulatto mistress of President Thomas Jefferson who together have two daughters, Althesea and Clotel. It is about the tragic lives of Currer, Althesea, and Clotel.
This novel focuses on the difficult lives of mulattoes in America and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the USA" (Brown).
It is often considered the first African-American novel. Clotel or, The President's Daughter is a novel by William Wells Brown (1815-84), a fugitive from slavery and abolitionist and was published in London, England in December 1853.
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