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Clotel: Or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (Bedford Cultural Editions) (1st Edition) by Robert S. Levine (Editor), William Wells Brown, Robert Steven Levine Paperback, 527 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-312-15265-5 / 0312152655 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-15265-9 / 9780312152659 William Wells Brown’s Clotel (1853), the first novel written by an African American, was published in London while Brown was still legally regarded as "property" within the borders of the United States. The novel was inspired by the story of Thomas Jefferson’s purported sexual relationship with his |