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Clotel : or, Thomas Jefferson's daughter

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 44 min.)) : digital.
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  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2014.
  • Distributor: Made available through hoopla

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Participant or Performer Note: Read by J. D. Jackson.
Summary, etc.: First published in 1853 amid 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.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject: Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Relations with women Fiction
African American families Fiction
Children of presidents Fiction
African American women Fiction
Illegitimate children Fiction
Racially mixed people Fiction
Women slaves Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.


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