Clotelle
Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
by William Wells Brown
CHAPTER I
THE SLAVE'S SOCIAL CIRCLE.
WITH the growing population in the Southern States, the increase of mulattoes has been very great. Society does not frown upon the man who sits with his half-white child upon his knee whilst the mother stands, a slave, behind his chair. In nearly all the cities and towns of the Slave States, the real negro, or clear black, does not amount to more than one in four of the sla ...