3.5
Clotel
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"Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States" is an 1853 novel written by American author and playwright William Wells Brown. The story revolves around the titular Clotel and her sister, two fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson, and explores the devastating effect slavery had on African-American families. William Wells Brown (c. 1814–1884) was an American playwright, novelist, historian, and prominent abolitionist lecturer. Born a slave, he escaped from Kentucky to Ohio in 1834, aged 19 and finally settled in Boston, where he took up writing and anti-abolition activism. A compelling examination of life as an African-American slave, "Clotel", is not to be missed by those with an interest in African-American literature and history. Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this novel now complete with the poem "Fling out the Anti-Slavery Flag" by the author.
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“this is nothing like i thought it would be. i first heard about the book during the pandemic when looking for books to teach during my student teaching era. a content creator displayed this as a book that should be taught in high school, instead of what is actually taught. i bookmarked it, but never really moved forward with reading it.
now, i've had the opportunity to with grad school.
suspending disbelief — and i hesitate to use this as a phrase, given that this book is not purely fiction — was difficult for me. constantly the author shifted from the fictionalized events between real numbers, stories, and experiences. the reader is constantly faced with the atrocities of the enslavement of a people, the colorism that has ensued, and the rationalizations of this behavior. william wells brown does not let the reader get away with this at all. the truth is ugly and readers are forced to face it. accordingly, the book is equally educational as it is an exemplification of pathos.
this being said, the technical aspect is lovely.
one lingering question: the story is large in scope, moving between clotel's mother, sister, nieces, daughter, and another cast of characters. entitling the novel singularly after clotel felt strange to me, but alas.”
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