William Wells Brown

Clotel, or The President's Daughter (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Excerpt: 'More than two hundred years have elapsed since the first cargo of slaves was landed on the banks of the James River, in the colony of Virginia, from the West coast of Africa. From the introduction of slaves in 1620, down to the period of the separation of the Colonies from the British Crown, the number had increased to five hundred thousand; now there are nearly four million. In fifteen of the thirty-one States, Slavery is made lawful by the Constitution, which binds the several States into one confederacy. On every foot of soil, over which Stars and Stripes wave, the Negro is considered common property, on which any white man may lay his hand with perfect impunity. The entire white population of the United States, North and South, are bound by their oath to the constitution, and their adhesion to the Fugitive Slaver Law, to hunt down the runaway slave and return him to his claimant, and to suppress any effort that may be made by the slaves to gain their freedom by physical force. Twenty-five millions of whites have banded themselves in solemn conclave to keep four millions of blacks in their chains. In all grades of society are to be found men who either hold, buy, or sell slaves, from the statesmen and doctors of divinity, who can own their hundreds, down to the person who can purchase but one.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783968659466
• Artikelnr.: 62193848

Autorenporträt

Brown, William Wells; Cashin, Joan E.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Negro Sale
Chapter 2 Going to the South
Chapter 3 The Negro Chase
Chapter 4 The Quadroon's Home
Chapter 5 The Slave Market
Chapter 6 The Religious Teacher
Chapter 7 The Poor Whites, South
Chapter 8 The Separation
Chapter 9 The Man of Honour
Chapter 10 The Young Christian
Chapter 11 The Parson Poet
Chapter 12 A Night in the Parson's Kitchen
Chapter 13 A Slave Hunting Parson
Chapter 14 A Free Woman Reduced to Slavery
Chapter 15 To-Day a Mistress, To-Morrow a Slave
Chapter 16 Death of the Parson
Chapter 17 Retaliation
Chapter 18 The Liberator
Chapter 19 Escape of Clotel
Chapter 20 A True Democrat
Chapter 21 The Christian's Death
Chapter 22 A Ride in a Stage-Coach
Chapter 23 Truth Stranger than Fiction
Chapter 24 The Arrest
Chapter 25 Death is Freedom
Chapter 26 The Escape
Chapter 27 The Mystery
Chapter 28 The Happy Meeting
Chapter 29 Conclusion