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Title: Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States

Author: William Wells Brown

Posting Date: November 19, 2008 [EBook #2095]
Release Date: March, 2000

Language: English

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CLOTELLE: A TALE OF THE SOUTHERN STATES

by

William Wells Brown

CONTENTS

I THE SLAVE'S SOCIAL CIRCLE.
II THE NEGRO SALE.
III THE SLAVE SPECULATOR.
IV THE BOAT-RACE.
V THE YOUNG MOTHER.
VI THE SLAVE-MARKET.
VII THE SLAVE-HOLDING PARSON.
VIII A NIGHT IN THE PARSON'S KITCHEN.
IX THE MAN OF HONOR.
X THE QUADROON'S HOME
XI TO-DAY A MISTRESS, TO-MORROW A SLAVE
XII THE MOTHER-IN-LAW.
XIII A HARD-HEARTED WOMAN.
XIV THE PRISON.
XV THE ARREST.
XVI DEATH IS FREEDOM.
XVII CLOTELLE.
XVIII A SLAVE-HUNTING PARSON.
XIX THE TRUE HEROINE.
XX THE HERO OF MANY ADVENTURES.
XXI SELF-SACRIFICE.
XXII LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT AND WHAT FOLLOWED.
XXIII MEETING OF THE COUSINS.
XXIV THE LAW AND ITS VICTIM.
XXV THE FLIGHT.
XXVI THE HERO OF A NIGHT.
XXVII TRUE FREEDOM.
XXVIII FAREWELL TO AMERICA.
XXIX A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
XXX NEW FRIENDS.
XXXI THE MYSTERIOUS MEETING.
XXXII THE HAPPY MEETING.
XXXIII THE HAPPY DAY.
XXXIV CLOTELLE MEETS HER FATHER.
XXXV THE FATHER'S RESOLVE.

CHAPTER I

THE SLAVE'S SOCIAL CIRCLE.

With the growing population in the Southern States, the increase of
mulattoes has been very great. Society does not frown upon the man who
sits with his half-white child upon his knee whilst the mother stands,
a slave, behind his chair. In nearly all the cities and towns of the
Slave States, the real negro, or clear black, does not amount to more
than one in four of the slave population. This fact is of itself the
best evidence of the degraded and immoral condition of the relation of
master and slave. Throughout the Southern States, there is a class of
slaves who, in mos