| Author: | William Wells Brown | ISBN: | 9781617209550 |
| Publisher: | Wilder Publications, Inc. | Publication: | June 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | SMK Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | William Wells Brown |
| ISBN: | 9781617209550 |
| Publisher: | Wilder Publications, Inc. |
| Publication: | June 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | SMK Books |
| Language: | English |
This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." It is a tragic mulatto story about a woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson.
This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." It is a tragic mulatto story about a woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson.
