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Author:

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, author.

Title:

The heroic slave : a cultural and critical edition / Frederick Douglass ; edited by Robert S. Levine, John Stauffer, and John R. McKivigan.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xxxvi, 267 pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Washington, Madison--Fiction.
Slaves--United States--Fiction.
Creole (Brig)--Fiction.
Slave insurrections--United States--History--19th century--Fiction.
Mutiny--United States--History--19th century--Fiction.
Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895.--Heroic slave.
Biographical fiction.

Other Authors:

Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953- editor.
Stauffer, John, 1965- editor.
McKivigan, John R., 1949- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction -- The text of Frederick Douglass's The heroic slave; Frederick Douglass, The heroic slave; A note on the text -- Contemporary responses to the Creole Rebellion, 1841-1843. "Another Amistad case -- what will grow out of it?"; "The Creole mutiny"; Protest of the officers and crew of the American brig Creole; The hero mutineers"; Deposition of William H. Merritt; "Madison Washington: another chapter in his history"; Daniel Webster, letter to Edward Everett; William Ellery Channing, from the duty of the free states, or remarks suggested by the case of the Creole; Joshua Giddings, resolutions; Henry Highland Garnet, from "An address to the slaves of the United States of America" -- Douglass on the Creole and Black revolution. Frederick Douglass, from "American prejudice against color"; Frederick Douglass, from "America's compromise with slavery and the abolitionists' work"; Frederick Douglass, from "American and Scottish prejudice against the slave"; Frederick Douglass, from "Meeting in Faneuil Hall"; Frederick Douglass, from "Address at the great anti-colonization meeting in New York"; Frederick Douglass, from What to the slave is the Fourth of July?";- Frederick Douglass, from "West India emancipation"; Frederick Douglass, "a black hero" -- Narratives of the Creole rebellion, 1855-1901. William C. Nell, "Madison Washington"; Samuel Ringgold Ward, "Men and women of mark"; William Wells Brown, "Slave revolt at sea"; Lydia Maria Child, "Madison Washington"; Robert Purvis, "A priceless picture: history of Sinque, the hero of the Amistad"; Pauline Hopkins, "A dash for liberty" -- Criticism. Robert B. Stepto, from "Storytelling in early Afro-American fiction"; William L. Andrews, from "The novelization of voice in early African American narrative"; Richard Yarborough, from "Race, violence, and manhood"; Maggie Montesinos Sale, from "The heroic slave; Celeste-Marie Bernier, from "Arms like polished iron"; Ivy G. Wilson, from "Transnationalism, Frederick Douglass, and "The heroic slave"; Carrie Hyde, from "The climates of liberty" -- Chronology of Frederick Douglass, Madison Washington, and resistance to slavery.

ISBN:

030018462X
9780300184624

OCLC:

(OCoLC)894149293

LCCN:

2014029869

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)