Quest to Abolish Slavery

Like Stowe, African Americans of the time tried their hand at fictional genres in their quest to abolish slavery

William Wells Brown
-author of the first novel published by an African American
wrote

-Clotel; or, The President's Daughter

story that addresses the ideological contradictions of a nation that celebrates democratic freedom yet continues to practice slavery

in Clotel
conceives Thomas Jefferson as...
-as the father of the Declaration of Independence
-document that sets down the nation's ideals
-father of the institution of slavery, through Jefferson's fathering of Clotel and her sister, Althesa

Upcoming

• -Frederick Douglass "Narrative of the Life of -Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself"
• -Assignments listed in calendar