How Are Brown's Clotel And Frados Alike

Comparing and Contrasting Clotel and Our Nig
Thesis Statement: Comparing and contrasting the narratives Brown's Clotel and Wilson's Our Nig, Clotel and Frado’s inhuman treatment, their family history and abandonment experience can be scrutinize. In the narrative by William Wells Brown Clotel, Clotel was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson. Clotel mother was a slave and she was presupposed to be his mistress of Jefferson. Clotel is not only consider to be a mix child but is also the President of the United States daughter. Clotel also had a sister and they were both born into slavery. They had a light skinned complexion in the book they were described as near white. After her Jefferson death, his wife and
children were now slaves and cold be purchased. They were soon purchased by a white man and he tried to marry Clotel mother but it failed. Clotel, her mother and sister are now still part of the salve trade. Her mother was brought by a preacher and was his salve untiled she passed away. Cotel sister marries her master by passing being a white woman, the have children, dies and they children became slaves. Both children passed away from suffering from enslavement and also, being sexual enslaved. Clotel went on to get married and had a daughter who was also of mix race. As time passed, her husband remarries to a white woman and makes him sell Clotel and her daughter. Clotel is sold in Mississippi and meets another slave and escapes. She then soon goes on a journey trying to avoid being enslaved and then commits suicide.

In the second narrative by Harriet. Wilson Our Nig Meg Smith was enticed into sexual activity and had a child by a man she wasn’t married to. The child soon dies and Meg moved away to a place where she would be consider unknown. She then meets a black man and they fall in love and starts a family. They had two children together. Her husband pass away and she remarries to her ex-husband close friend. They being their live together but is not finically stable enough to take care of both of their children. They soon send off her daughter Frado to live with a middle white class family. They were called Bellmont’s, thefamily came with their different personalities. Mr. Bellmont had goods ways but his wife was different from him. Frado was kept in a separated part of the house and she did house work for Mrs. Bellmont. Frado had to face being disliked by half of the Bellmont family, but she soon accepts it and realize she is a part of them now. At the end Frado becomes ill and moves to a shelter, later she recover and then she loses her husband of illness. She travels to different towns to find work, she goes through many obstacles. After reading both narratives they had similar hardships. The narratives both contained servants to their masters and to live their lives working for the white man. The narratives both told stories of abandonment, the characters were left by the people they loved. The characters had went through physical and mental abuse while growing up. The narratives had a similar tone and subject that allow me as a reader to feel the emotions while reading it. Bothe narratives consisted of several marriages that ended badly and left children in positions where they had to grow up fast. The obstacles the slaves were placed through were inhuman, especially being purchased, sold, or traded. Comparing the narratives they stayed in bondage no matter how hard the characters tried to change things. They characters were born into their misery and try to survive the best way they could.