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APPENDICES
Appendix A: Representations of Slave Revolt and the Slave Trade
- From Amasa Delano, Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (1817)
- From Frederick Douglass, “The Heroic Slave” (1853)
- From John Quincy Adams, Argument of John Quincy Adams Before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of United States, Appellants, Cinque, and Others, Africans (1841)
- From Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
- From Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856)
- From The Confessions of Nat Turner (1832)
- Am I Not a Man and a Brother (1787)
- Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788
- The Slave Deck of the Bark “Wildfire,” Brought into Key West on 30 April 1860
- The Abolition of the Slave Trade
- Cinque, the Chief of the Amistad Captives
Appendix B: Herman Melville on Race, Slavery, Colonialism, and Violence
- From Herman Melville, Typee (1846)
- From Herman Melville, “Mr. Parkman’s Tour,” New York Literary World (31 March 1849)
- From Herman Melville, “A Bosom Friend,” in Moby-Dick, or, The Whale (1851)
- From Herman Melville, “Midnight, Forecastle,” in Moby-Dick, or, The Whale (1851)
- Herman Melville, “Formerly a Slave,” in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
- Herman Melville, “The Swamp Angel,” in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
- From Herman Melville, Supplement to Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
- From Herman Melville, Clarel, A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876)
Appendix C: The Haitian Revolution and the Black Legend
- John Greenleaf Whittier, “Toussaint L’ouverture” (1833)
- William Wordsworth, “Toussaint L’ouverture” (1802)
- From Frank J. Webb, The Garies and Their Friends (1857)
- Toussaint Louverture
- From Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Suprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
- From James Montgomery, “The West Indies” (1810)
Appendix D: Anti-Slavery Rhetoric and Poetry
- From Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” (5 July 1854)
- Frederick Douglass, “A Parody,” in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point (1849)
- James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis” (1844)
- James M. Whitfield, “To Cinque” (1853)
- James M. Whitfield, “Lines on the Death of John Quincy Adams” (1853)
- James M. Whitfield, “America” (1853)
- Frances E.W. Harper, “The Slave Mother. A Tale of the Ohio” (1857)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Caste and Christ” (1853)
- From Lydia Maria Child, An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)
- Lydia Maria Child, “The Influence of Slavery with Regard to Moral Purity” (1838)
- Lydia Huntley Sigourney, “To the First Slave Ship” (1827)
Appendix E: Melville and the Theory of Short Fiction
- From Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and his Mosses” (1850)
- From Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales (1842)
- Review of The Piazza Tales, United States Democratic Review (September 1856)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1852)