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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from e...

Thirteen years ago, I came to your door, a weary fugitive from chains and stripes. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was hungry, and you fed me. Naked was I, and you clothed me. Even a name by which to be known among men, slavery had denied me. You bestowed upon me your own. Base indeed should I be, if I ever forget what I owe to you, or do anything to disgrace that honored name!

Excerpt from St. Domingo, Its Revolutions and Its Patriots: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Metropolitan Athenæum, London, May 16, and at St. Thomas' Church, Philadelphia, December 20, 1854 As in all countries where involuntary servitude exists, morality was at a low stand. Owing to the amalga mation of whites with blacks, there arose a class known as mulattoes and quadroons. This class, though allied to the whites by the tenderest ties of na...

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The harrowing fictional account of slave fathered by President Thomas Jefferson.

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This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." It is a tragic mulatto story about a woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson.

Excerpt from The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements The calumniators and traducers of the Negro are to be found, mainly, among two classes. The first and most relentless are those who have done them the greatest injury, by being instrumental in their enslavement and consequent degradation. They delight to descant upon the "natural inferiority" of the blacks, and claim that we were destined only for a servile conditio...

Excerpt from Clotelle or the Colored Heroine, A Tale of the Southern States With the exception of the last four chapters, this work was written before the breaking out of the recent rebellion. Although romantic in many of its details, it is, nevertheless, a truthful description of scenes which occurred in the places which are given. Both Clotelle and Jerome are real personages. Many of the incidents were witnessed by the author. About the P...

Excerpt from Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive SlaveThis amount is just half that I paid for him. -now, if this offer suits Mr. Brown, and the Anti - Slavery Society of Boston, or Massachusetts, let me know, and I will give you the name of my agent in Boston, and forward the papers, to be given to William W. Brown as soon as the money is paid.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. ...

Excerpt from The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity NO doubt, errors in fact and in judgment will be dis covered, which I shall be ready to acknowledge, and correct in subsequent editions. The work might have been swelled to double its present size, but I did not feel bound to introduce an account of every little skirmish in which colored men were engaged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of ...

Born a slave and kept functionally illiterate until he escaped at age nineteen, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) refashioned himself first as an agent of the Underground Railroad, then as an antislavery activist and self-taught orator, and finally as the author of a series of landmark works that made him, like Frederick Douglass, a foundational figure of African American literature. His controversial novel Clotel, or, the President's Daughter (...

The author was a prominent Afro-American abolitionist lecturer, writer and historian. First published in 1867, this work is considered the first historical record of black soldiers in the American Revolutionary War to be published, and it also details the contribution made by black soldiers during the American Civil War.

The first novel by an African-American, this dramatic tale tells the fate of a child fathered by Thomas Jefferson with one of his slaves. The author, a former slave, powerfully depicts racial injustice.

Originally published in 1853, Clotel is the first novel by an African American. William Wells Brown, a contemporary of Frederick Douglass, was well known for his abolitionist activities. In Clotel, the author focuses on the experiences of a slave woman: Brown treats the themes of gender, race, and slavery in distinctive ways, highlighting the mutability of identity as well as the absurdities and cruelties of slavery. The plot includes several ...