Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Part 1 The Text of Frederick Douglass's: The Heroic Slave
Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave 3
A Note on the Text 53
Part 2 Contemporary Responses to the Creole Rebellion, 1841-1843
"Another Amistad Case?What Will Grow Out of It?" 59
"The Creole Mutiny" 62
Protest of the Officers and Crew of the American Brig Creole 66
"The Hero Mutineers" 75
Deposition of William H. Merritt 81
"Madison Washington: Another Chapter in His History" 85
Daniel Webster, Letter to Edward Everett 88
William Ellery Channing, from The Duty of the Free States, or Remarks Suggested by the Case of the Creole 99
Joshua R. Giddings, Resolutions 104
Henry Highland Garnet, from "An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America" 107
Part 3 Douglass on the Creole and Black Revolution
Frederick Douglass, from "American Prejudice against Color" 113
Frederick Douglass, from "America's Compromise with Slavery and the Abolitionists' Work" 116
Frederick Douglass, from "American and Scottish Prejudice against the Slave" 118
Frederick Douglass, from "Meeting in Faneuil Hall" 121
Frederick Douglass, from "Address at the Great Anti-Colonization Meeting in New York" 123
Frederick Douglass, from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" 127
Frederick Douglass, from "West India Emancipation" 133
Frederick Douglass, "A Black Hero" 138
Part 4 Narratives of the Creole Rebellion, 1855-1901
William C. Nell, "Madison Washington" 145
Samuel Ringgold Ward, "Men and Women of Mark" 147
William Wells Brown, "Slave Revolt at Sea" 150
Lydia Maria Child, "Madison Washington" 161
Robert Purvis, "A Priceless Picture: History of Sinque, the Hero of the Amistad" 168
Pauline E. Hopkins, "A Dash for Liberty" 178
Part 5 Criticism
Robert B. Stepto, from "Storytelling in Early Afro-American Fiction" 191
William L. Andrews, from "The Novelization of Voice in Early African American Narrative" 202
Richard Yarborough, from "Race, Violence, and Manhood" 207
Maggie Montesinos Sale, from "The Heroic Slave" 220
Celeste-Marie Bernier, from "'Arms like Polished Iron"' 226
Ivy G. Wilson, from "Transnationalism, Frederick Douglass, and "The Heroic Slave"' 231
Carrie Hyde, from "The Climates of Liberty" 238
Chronology of Frederick Douglass, Madison Washington, and Resistance to Slavery 251
Selected Bibliography 263