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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: The Text of Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave
Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave
A Note on the Text
Part 2: 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 R. Giddings, Resolutions
Henry Highland Garnet, from “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America”
Part 3: 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”
Part 4: 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 E. Hopkins, “A Dash for Liberty”
Part 5: 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
Selected Bibliography
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