How long does it take to read Clotel?
William Wells Brown, M. Giulia Fabi
Clotel by William Wells Brown, M. Giulia Fabi takes about 3 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1853. 198 pages, about 54,450 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 109 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel an African-American. When the book was published, Brown himself was legally the property of someone else within the United States, having escaped from slavery in Kentucky when he was younger. In the story President Thomas Jefferson and his former mulatto mistress Currer have had two daughters together: Althesea and Clotel. When their master passes away, their relatively comfortable lives are swept away and Currer and Althesea are bought by the harsh slave trader Dick Walker.
Subjects: African American families, African American women, Children of presidents, Fiction, Illegitimate children, Racially mixed people
