The first African American novel, Clotel was published when its author was
still legally a slave. This digital edition presents, for the first time
together, the full extant texts of the novel’s four versions, published
between 1853 and 1867. Imaged and coded, the fully searchable texts may
be read individually or in parallel and are accompanied by generous
biographical, critical, and historical commentary as well as
line-by-line annotations and
textual collation.
