The Heroic Slave : A Cultural and Critical Edition / Frederick Douglass; John R. Kaufman-McKivigan, Robert S. Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, Author.

Contributor:

Kaufman-McKivigan, John R., Editor.

Levine, Robert S., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Washington, Madison--Fiction.

Washington, Madison.

Creole (Brig)--Fiction.

Creole (Brig).

Enslaved persons--United States--Fiction.

Enslaved persons.

Slave rebellions--United States--History--19th century--Fiction.

Slave rebellions.

Mutiny--United States--History--19th century--Fiction.

Mutiny.

Genre:

Biographical fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

Cultural and critical edition.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: The Text of Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-21056-6

OCLC:

1058433188