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Clotel
Author: William Wells Brown
Narrator: JD Jackson
Unabridged: 6 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Published: 01/28/2014
Category: Fiction - Sagas
Synopsis
First published in 1853 amidst rumors that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with one of his slaves, Clotel is a fictional chronicle of one such child. After Jefferson's death, his mistress and her two daughters are auctioned. One daughter, Clotel, is purchased by a white man from Virginia who impregnates her. Despite the promise of marriage, Clotel is instead sold to another man and separated from her daughter. After escaping from the slave dealer, Clotel returnss to Virginia to reunite with her daughter - now a slave in her father's house.