Clotel; Or, The President’s Daughter

is a novel published in 1853. This groundbreaking work tells the story of Clotel andhersister, fictional enslaveddaughtersofThomasJefferson. AfterJeffer son’s death, the womenandtheirmotheraresoldintoslavery, facingsepara tion, exploitation, and desperate choices. Through their intertwined fates, Brown explores slavery’s devastating impact on African-American families and the precarious existence of mixed-race people in antebellum America. Thenovel follows their heroic but tragic struggles for freedom and dignity. My country, shall thy honoured name, Be as a bye-word through the world? Rouse! for, as if to blast thy fame, This keen reproach is at thee hurled; The banner that above the waves, Is floating o’er three million slaves.' DICKWALKER,theslave speculator, who had purchased Currer and Al thesa, put them in prison until his gang was made up, and then, with his forty slaves, started for the New Orleans market. As many of the slaves had been brought up in Richmond, and had relations residing there, the slave trader determined to leave the city early in the morning, so as not to witness any of those scenes so common where slaves are separated from their rela tives and friends, when aboutdepartingfortheSouthernmarket. Thisplan was successful; for not even Clotel, who had been every day at the prison to see her mother and sister, knew of their departure. A march of eight days through the interior of the state, and they arrived on the banks of the Ohio river, where they were all put on board a steamer, and then speedily sailed for the place of their destination