CLOTELLE; OR, THE COLORED HEROINE. A Tale of the Southern States.
BYWILLIAM WELLS BROWN,
AUTHOR OF "SKETCHES OF PLACES AND PEOPLE ABROAD," "THE BLACK MAN," "NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN REBELLION," &C. "Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. When truth or virtue an affront endures, The affront is mine, my friend, and should be yours." POPE.BOSTON: LEE & SHEPARD, 149 WASHINGTON STREET.
1867.Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by WILLIAM WELLS BROWN, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. PRESS OF GEO. C. RAND & AVERY.
To
MRS. ANNIE G. BROWN,
MY WIFE,
WHO, ON READING THE MANUSCRIPT, SO MUCH ADMIRED THE
CHARACTER OF CLOTELLE AS TO NAME OUR DAUGHTER
AFTER THE HEROINE,
This Unpretending Volume
IS MOST AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
BY THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
WITH the exception of the last four chapters, this work was written before the breaking out of the recent rebellion. Although romantic in many of its details, it is, nevertheless, a truthful description of scenes which occurred in the places which are given.
Both Clotelle and Jerome are real personages. Many of the incidents were witnessed by the author.
