*Moby-Dick, chap. 93. In his 1849 novel, Redburn, the narrator gazes at the Liverpool monument to Lord Nelson with its four figures (meant to represent “Nelson’s principal victories”) cowering at the admiral’s feet and is “involuntarily reminded of four African slaves in the marketplace.” Melville also addressed slavery in his collection of Civil War poems, Battle-Pieces, published in 1866, notably in “Formerly a Slave,” a response to a portrait of an emancipated woman by the painter Elihu Vedder in which Melville saw the sorrow of “too late deliverance” but hope for “her children’s children,” who shall know “the good withheld from her.”