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The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition

The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition

The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition
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The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition

The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition

Overview

Frederick Douglass’s only work of fiction—an imaginative retelling of the most successful slave revolt in American history—accompanied by an interpretive introduction, notes, and a selection of related writings by Douglass and others

First published nearly a decade prior to the Civil War, The Heroic Slave is the only fictional work by abolitionist, orator, author, and social reformer Frederick Douglass, himself a former slave. It is inspired by the true story of Madison Washington, who, along with eighteen others, took control of the slave ship Creole in November 1841 and sailed it to Nassau in the British colony of the Bahamas, where they could live free. This new critical edition, ideal for classroom use, includes the full text of Douglass’s fictional recounting of the most successful slave revolt in American history, as well as an interpretive introduction; excerpts from Douglass’s correspondence, speeches, and editorials; short selections by other writers on the Creole rebellion; and recent criticism on the novella.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300184624
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 03/24/2015
Edition description: Critical
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was an American social reformer, orator, author, and statesman. Robert S. Levine is professor of English at the University of Maryland. John Stauffer is chair of the History of American Civilization and professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. John R. McKivigan is Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.

Hometown:

Tuckahoe, Maryland

Date of Birth:

1818

Date of Death:

February 20, 1895

Place of Death:

Washington, D.C.

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

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