Clotel; or, The President's Daughter Glossary

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notoriety

to be infamous for a bad deed

vicinity

closeness

barbarity

brutality

rampant

to be uncontrolled

credibility

believability

mulatto

a person of mixed white and black ancestry

Devastated

overwhelming sense of grief

Fury

intense anger

Collapse

to give way

Glare

to stare angrily

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