Clotel Quotes

“WITH the growing population of slaves in the Southern States of America, there is a fearful increase of half whites, most of whose fathers are slaveowners and their mothers slaves.”
― William Wells Brown, Clotel: or, The President's Daughter

“But, sad to say, Jefferson is not the only American statesman who has spoken high-sounding words in favour of freedom, and then left his own children to die slaves.”
― William Wells Brown, Clotel: or, The President's Daughter