Primary Sources: People - African-Americans: Brown, William Wells

"Opening with the auction of Currer, the supposed mistress of Thomas Jefferson, and their two daughters, Clotel and Althesa, the novel immediately highlights the horrifying injustices rendered, particularly upon mixed-race individuals, under slavery. Whereas Clotel's white redeemer, Horatio Green, the son of a wealthy Richmond planter, purchases and marries her, both Althesa and Currer, fall into the hands of the notoriously villainous slave trader Dick Walker. Thus, while Clotel remains in relative comfort "for a time," Althesa and Currer are sold away from one another and into more degrading forms of bondage (p.212). "

Also includes links to:
William Wells Brown describes the Crafts' escape, The Liberator, January 12, 1849
A report on speeches made by William Wells Brown and William and Ellen Craft, 1849
Speech by Brown delivered in Croydon, England, 5 September 1849
Speech by Brown delivered in London, England, 27 September 1849
Speech by Brown delivered in London, England, 1 August 1851
Speech by Brown delivered in Manchester, England, 1 August 1854