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How Are Brown's Clotel And Frados Alike
Comparing and Contrasting Clotel and Our Nig
Thesis Statement: Comparing and contrasting the narratives Brown's Clotel and Wilson's Our Nig, Clotel and Frado’s inhuman treatment, their family history and abandonment experience can be scrutinize. In the narrative by William Wells Brown Clotel, Clotel was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson. Clotel mother was a slave and she was presupposed to be his mistress of Jefferson. Clotel is not only consider to be a mix child but is also the President of the United States daughter. Clotel also had a sister and they were both born into slavery. They had a light skinned complexion in the book they were described as near white. After her Jefferson death, his wife and

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