{"product_id":"clotel-or-the-presidents-daughter-paperback","title":"Clotel -Or- The President's Daughter: The First African American Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Wells Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eClotel: or, The President's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e is a landmark of American literature: the first novel published by an African American author and a powerful abolitionist indictment of slavery, race, hypocrisy, and national contradiction.\u003c\/strong\u003e William Wells Brown builds his story around the imagined daughters of Thomas Jefferson and an enslaved woman, using that explosive premise to expose the moral failure of a republic that proclaimed liberty while holding human beings as property.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1853, \u003cem\u003eClotel\u003c\/em\u003e combines fiction, documentary material, political argument, sentimental narrative, and anti-slavery witness. Its story follows women whose lives are shaped by enslavement, sale, family separation, racial violence, sexual exploitation, escape, and the cruel instability of a system in which legal status can destroy love, kinship, and identity. Brown's novel is not merely an early work of African American fiction; it is a direct confrontation with the myths America told about itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis SMK edition is suited to readers of classic American literature, African American literature, abolitionist writing, slavery narratives, nineteenth-century fiction, political fiction, and the literary history of race in the United States. \u003cem\u003eClotel\u003c\/em\u003e remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of African American fiction, the literature of slavery and freedom, and the long struggle to force American ideals to face American realities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 30, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Clotel: Or, the President's Daughter\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.8\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 14\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45681496096965,"sku":"9781617206054","price":30.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/WNEETBg2tk9781617206054.webp?v=1783300941","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/clotel-or-the-presidents-daughter-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}