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Clotel
章节(32)
- Preface to the 1853 Edition 0:00
- Narrative of the Life and Escape of William Wells Brown 3:21
- Epigraph 1:28:22
- I: The Negro Sale 1:28:44
- II: Going to the South 1:48:30
- III: The Negro Chase 2:03:07
- IV: The Quadroon’s Home 2:13:46
- V: The Slave Market 2:20:11
- VI: The Religious Teacher 2:27:33
- VII: The Poor Whites, South 2:55:44
- VIII: The Separation 3:07:07
- IX: The Man of Honour 3:17:03
- X: The Young Christian 3:20:09
- XI: The Parson Poet 3:36:09
- XII: A Night in the Parson’s Kitchen 3:43:26
- XIII: A Slave Hunting Parson 3:54:37
- XIV: A Free Woman Reduced to Slavery 4:07:04
- XV: Today a Mistress, Tomorrow a Slave 4:14:24
- XVI: Death of the Parson 4:20:29
- XVII: Retaliation 4:31:03
- XVIII: The Liberator 4:37:03
- XIX: Escape of Clotel 4:52:24
- XX: A True Democrat 5:20:00
- XXI: The Christian’s Death 5:29:16
- XXII: A Ride in a Stagecoach 5:44:29
- XXIII: Truth Stranger Than Fiction 6:09:09
- XXIV: The Arrest 6:22:04
- XXV: Death Is Freedom 6:31:40
- XXVI: The Escape 6:42:59
- XXVII: The Mystery 7:02:22
- XXVIII: The Happy Meeting 7:09:20
- XXIX: Conclusion 7:27:10
The first published novel by a black American author combines real-life stories, including his own story of escaping slavery and recollections he heard while helping others escape, with abolitionist agitprop, revealing ephemera from the newspapers of the time, and sympathetic (if somewhat melodramatic) characters. What emerges from this collage is an indictment of slavery and of American hypocrisy about liberty that found an enthusiastic and enraged audience when it was published in 1853.
Clotel has a complex publishing history, with four separate editions published between 1853 and 1867. These editions contain huge differences in characters and plotting, so much so that they might each be considered separate novels in their own right. This edition is based on the first edition of 1853.