Abstract
Abstract: This essay contends the paratextual depiction of the eponymous heroine of William Wells Brown’s 1853 Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter invites a speculative reconsideration, grounded in Black feminist theoretical frameworks, of Brown’s exploration of the possibilities of freedom for the fugitive subject in the antebellum United States. Through this reassessment, Clotel emerges as a fugitive mother who theorizes the geographies of slavery, imagining a world for her and her child entirely different from the one that otherwise rules their possibilities.
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