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Chapter 1
THE NEGRO SALE
Brown opens with the auction of Currer and her daughters Clotel and Althesa, said to be Thomas Jefferson's children, exposing how slavery commodified family, motherhood, and parentage alike.
The slave auctionMixed-race parentage under slaveryDenial of marriage rightsCurrer, Clotel, and AlthesaThomas Jefferson's enslaved children