About the series
About this volume
List of illustrations
Part One: Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter: The Complete Text
Introduction: Cultural and historical background
Chronology of Brown's life and times
Note on the text and annotations
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter [1853 edition]
Part Two: Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter: Cultural Contexts
1: Sources and revisions
Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled / Thomas Jefferson
Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope
Sale of a daughter of Tho's Jefferson / William Goodell
Jefferson's daughter / Anonymous
Letter to Frederick Douglass' paper / James McCune Smith
What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass
Sermons addressed to masters and servants / Thomas Bacon
Two proclamations / Andrew Jackson
American slavery as it is / Theodore Dwight Weld
New Liberty Party / William Wells Brown
Singular escape / William Wells Brown
Quadroons / Lydia Maria Child
Quadroon's story / Harriet Beecher Stowe
Leap from the Long Bridge; an incident at Washington / Grace Greenwood
Narrative of William W Brown / William Wells Brown
Biography of an American bondman / Josephine Brown
Original panoramic views / William Wells Brown
Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States / William Wells Brown
Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine / William Wells Brown
2: Race, Slavery, Prejudice
Notes on the State of Virginia / Thomas Jefferson
Letter exchange (1791) / Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson
Walker's appeal / David Walker
African colonization / Henry Clay
Review of the debate in the Virginia legislature / Thomas R Dew
On the reception of abolition petitions / John C Calhoun
Inquiry into the scriptural views of slavery / Albert Barnes
Southern customs-Madame Chevalier / Martin R Delany
Colorphobia in New York! / Frederick Douglass
Types of mankind / Josiah C Nott and George R Gliddon
Diseases and peculiarities of the Negro race / Samuel A Cartwright
Constitution and the union / Daniel Webster
Sociology for the South / George Fitzhugh
South-side view of slavery / Nehemiah Adams
Planter's northern bride / Caroline Lee Hentz
What slaves are taught to think of the North / Harriet Jacobs
Prohibition of colored persons / Walt Whitman


3: Resistance And Reform
Confessions of Nat Turner
To the public / William Lloyd Garrison
Appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans / Lydia Maria Child
Appeal to the Christian women of the South / Angelina E Grimke
Rights of Women / Frederick Douglass
I am a woman's rights / Sojourner Truth
Address, delivered at the African Masonic Hall / Maria W Stewart
Responsibility of colored people in the free states / Samuel E Cornish
Colored people in America / Frances E W Harper
Address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet
Report of the Committee on Abolition (1847) / National Convention of Colored People
Resolutions adopted (1853) / Colored National Convention
Political destiny of the colored race on the American continent / Martin R Delany
Declaration of Wrongs and Rights (1864) / National Convention of Colored Men
St Domingo: its revolutions and its patriots / William Wells Brown
Plea for Captain John Brown / Henry David Thoreau
Battle of Milliken's Bend / William Wells Brown
My Southern Home / William Wells Brown
Selected bibliography.