Frederick Douglass ; edited by Robert S. Levine, John Stauffer, and John R. McKivigan
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxxvi, 267 pages ;
Dimensions
21 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Douglass, Frederick,1818-1895., Heroic slave
Washington, Madison
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Creole (Brig)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Mutiny-- United States-- History-- 19th century, Fiction
Slave insurrections-- United States-- History-- 19th century, Fiction