As nearly all of its reviewers pointed out, Clotel was an
audience-minded performance, an effort to capitalize on the
post-Uncle Tom's Cabin ""mania"" for abolitionist fiction in Great
Britain, where William Wells Brown lived between 1849 and 1854. The
novel tells the story of Clotel and Althesa, the fictional
daughters of Thomas Jefferson and his mixed-race slave. Like the
popular and entertaining public lectures that Brown gave in England
and America, Clotel is a series of startling, attention-grabbing
narrative ""attractions"". Brown creates in this novel a delivery
system for these attractions, in an effort to draw as many readers
as possible towards anti-slavery and anti-racist causes. Rough,
studded with caricatures, and intimate with the racism it ironizes,
Clotel is still capable of creating a potent mix of discomfort and
delight. This edition aims to makes it possible to read Clotel in
something like its original cultural context. Geoffrey Sanborn's
Introduction discusses Brown's extensive plagiarism of other
authors in composing Clotel, as well as his narrative strategies in
the novel.
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