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Le Mulâtre is a short story by the American-born free person of color Victor Séjour. It was written in French, Séjour's first language, and published in the Paris abolitionist journal Revue des Colonies in 1837. It is the earliest extant work of fiction by an African-American author, and was noted as such when an English translation appeared in the first edition of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature in 1997.Before the importance of French literature by writers of color from New Orleans was recognized, histories of African-American fiction had conventionally begun with The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass in 1852, and The Two Offers by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in 1859 had been considered the first African-American short story. French literature flourished from the late 18th and into the early 20th century in Louisiana, and the francophone literary community among people of color was intellectually rich and sophisticated—a reality obscured by the identification of American literature with writing in English. The literary dynamism of New Orleans prepared Séjour to enjoy a successful career as a dramatist in Paris, where he emigrated to escape racial restrictions in the U.S.The Mulatto has been described as a gothic revenge tale revolving around the psychological conflicts of a mulatto searching for the identity of his father. It is one of the earliest works of fiction driven by the psychological trauma of American slavery.
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