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Clotel5/20/2023 Also several mulatto girls of rare personal qualities: two of them very superior.” The negroes are in good condition, some of them very prime among them are several mechanics, able-bodied field hands, plough-boys, and women with children at the breast, and some of them very prolific in their generating qualities, affording a rare opportunity to any one who wishes to raise a strong and healthy lot of servants for their own use. …the following advertisement appeared in a newspaper published in Richmond, the capital of the state of Virginia:–“Notice: Thirty-eight negroes will be offered for sale on Monday, November 10th, at twelve o’clock, being the entire stock of the late John Graves, Esq. Jefferson indeed had a sexual relationship with an enslaved woman named Sally Hemmings, but this story does more to expose the horrifying realities of life under slavery than explain the particular experiences of Sally Hemmings and her children. Opening with the auction of Currer, the supposed mistress of Thomas Jefferson, and their two daughters, Clotel and Althesa. Brown was born in slavery in Kentucky and escaped to freedom at the age of 20. William Wells Brown, “ Clotel or, The President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States,” 1853įirst published in London, Clotel or, The President’s Daughter (1853) by William Wells Brown is considered the first novel by an African-American.
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