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The Heroic Slave

Author : Fredrick Douglass
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486831655
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book The Heroic Slave written by Fredrick Douglass and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass based his only fictional work on the gripping true story of the biggest slave rebellion in U.S. history. The Heroic Slave was inspired by a courageous uprising led by Madison Washington in 1841. Washington rallied 18 of the 135 slaves aboard a ship bound for New Orleans, the country's primary slave-trading market. The mutineers seized control, landing the ship in the British-controlled Bahamas, where their freedom was recognized. Originally published nearly a decade before the Civil War, Douglass's novella was one of the earliest examples of African-American fiction. Douglass presents Madison Washington's heroism less as a matter of violent escape and more as a voluntary act of claiming self-ownership. Douglass's retelling encouraged readers to engage in the abolitionist cause. It captivated readers by equating black slaves' rebellion against tyranny with the spirit and democratic ideals of the American Revolution.

The Heroic Slave

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030018462X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Heroic Slave written by Frederick Douglass and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Heroic Slave

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300210566
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Heroic Slave written by Frederick Douglass and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Heroic Slave

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513287605
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Heroic Slave written by Frederick Douglass and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heroic Slave (1852) is a novella by Frederick Douglass. Although he is more frequently recognized as prominent orator and autobiographer who spearheaded the American abolitionist movement, Douglass published one work of fiction in his lifetime. Inspired by the 1841 Creole case, in which an enslaved cook and a crew of nineteen fellow-slaves led a rebellion onboard a ship bound from Virginia to New Orleans, The Heroic Slave seeks to highlight the bravery and autonomy of fugitives and revolutionaries who did what they could to help themselves in the absence of help from their country. Sitting down for dinner, Mr. Listwell, a white southerner, is interrupted by a knock at the door. He opens it to find Madison Washington, a fugitive slave who disappeared without a trace five years prior. Hesitant at first, Listwell agrees to hear the man out, and learns that rather than escape to the north, Washington remained behind to be near his wife and children, hiding in the wilderness the whole time. Moved by his tragic story, Listwell provides him clothes and supplies, and encourages him to head for Canada. Sometime later, he sees a slave gang headed for market, and identifies Washington in chains. Before they part ways once more, perhaps forever, Listwell purchases a set of files and manages to get them to Washington, who remains determined to fight for his freedom until the bitter end. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Frederick Douglass’ The Heroic Slave is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.

The Heroic Slave

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Wildside Press
ISBN 13 : 9781434441218
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Heroic Slave written by Frederick Douglass and published by Wildside Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Heroic Slave, a Thrilling Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington, in Pursuit of Liberty" is a novella written by famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass. When the Rochester Ladies' Anti Slavery Society asked Douglass for a short story to go in their collection, "Autographs for Freedom," Douglass responded in turn with "The Heroic Slave." The novella, published in 1852 by John P. Jewett and Company, was Douglass' first and only published work of fiction (though he did publish several autobiographical narratives)."The Heroic Slave" is the fictionalized story of Madison Washington, who was a real man famous for his rebellion on board the sailing ship, the Creole.

There was Once a Slave ...

Author : Shirley Graham Du Bois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There was Once a Slave ... written by Shirley Graham Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Heroic Slave (an African American Heritage Book)

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781515436935
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Heroic Slave (an African American Heritage Book) written by Frederick Douglass and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Heroic Slave

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781979376686
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Heroic Slave written by Frederick Douglass and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LARGE PRINT EDITION:THE State of Virginia is famous in American annals for the multitudinous array of her statesmen and heroes. She has been dignified by some the mother of statesmen. History has not been sparing in recording their names, or in blazoning their deeds. Her high position in this respect, has given her an enviable distinction among her sister States. With Virginia for his birth-place, even a man of ordinary parts, on account of the general partiality for her sons, easily rises to eminent stations. Men, not great enough to attract special attention in their native States, have, like a certain distinguished citizen in the State of New York, sighed and repined that they were not born in Virginia. Yet not all the great ones of the Old Dominion have, by the fact of their birthplace, escaped undeserved obscurity. By some strange neglect, one of the truest, manliest, and bravest of her children,--one who, in after years, will, I think, command the pen of genius to set his merits forth, holds now no higher place in the records of that grand old Commonwealth than is held by a horse or an ox

Autographs for Freedom. [Edited by J. G.]

Author : Julia Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Autographs for Freedom. [Edited by J. G.] written by Julia Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave written by Frederick Douglass and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Frederick Douglass wrote in 1845. It’s an autobiographic story about slavery and freedom, constant aim to run away from the owner and at last become a free man. One failure follows another one. But in the end the fortune favours Douglass and he runs away on a train to the north, New-York. It would seem he is free now. Suddenly, he realises that his journey isn’t finished yet. He understands that even after he got free he can’t be at real liberty until the slavery is abolished in the USA…

The Lives of Frederick Douglass

Author : Robert S. Levine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674055810
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of Frederick Douglass written by Robert S. Levine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Douglass’s changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in his many conflicting accounts of events during his journey from slavery to freedom. Robert S. Levine creates a fascinating collage of this elusive subject—revisionist biography at its best, offering new perspectives on Douglass the social reformer, orator, and writer.

Two Slave Rebellions at Sea

Author : George Hendrick
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781881089452
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Two Slave Rebellions at Sea written by George Hendrick and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2000-07-26 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredrick Douglass (1818-1895), a fugitive slave who became the best-known black abolitionist orator and autobiographer, and Herman Melville (1819-1891), a fiction writer recognized for the elusiveness of his meanings, both composed stories about slave revolts at sea. In the decade just before the Civil War, during years of increasingly angry debate about slavery, Douglass in "The Heroic Slave" (1853) and Melville in "Benito Cereno" (1855) fictionalized important slave insurrections. Of the mutiny on the Creole, on which Douglass's story is based, the editors recount what can be recovered about the slave Madison Washington, who led the revolt, and reconstruct the events before and after the uprising. The editors warn the readers that the official documents about the case are all biased against the mutineers, who were never allowed to tell their story to American officials. Addressing largely white readers in the North, Douglass, to the contrary, speaks clearly as an abolitionist: Slaves wanted their freedom and were justified in using violence to gain it. "Benito Cereno" is based on Captain Amasa Delano's chapter in his Narrative of Voyages and Travels... (1817) about a slave mutiny off the coast of South America. Writing in part for a northern readership, Melville tells of a mutiny that, unlike Madison Washington's, was suppressed. Delano's account shows no sympathy for the slaves. Melville's view is hidden in ambiguities. "Benito Cereno" is one of Melville's stories most often collected in anthologies; Douglas's "The Heroic Slave" is rarely reprinted.

The Heroic Slave (Another Leaf Press)

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781482341751
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Heroic Slave (Another Leaf Press) written by Frederick Douglass and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Douglass's classic short work.

Frederick Douglass in Context

Author : Michaël Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108803040
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Frederick Douglass in Context written by Michaël Roy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Douglass in Context provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Frederick Douglass, the nineteenth-century's leading black activist and one of the most celebrated American writers. An international team of scholars sheds new light on the environments and communities that shaped Douglass's career. The book challenges the myth of Douglass as a heroic individualist who towered over family, friends, and colleagues, and reveals instead a man who relied on others and drew strength from a variety of personal and professional relations and networks. This volume offers both a comprehensive representation of Douglass and a series of concentrated studies of specific aspects of his work. It will be a key resource for students, scholars, teachers, and general readers interested in Douglass and his tireless fight for freedom, justice, and equality for all.

Early Short Fictions. The Significance of Stereotypes in "The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass

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Author : Fenja Bo
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 366848984X
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Early Short Fictions. The Significance of Stereotypes in "The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass written by Fenja Bo and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2017 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,8, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: This paper analyzes Frederick Douglass’s African American novella and only work of fiction “The Heroic Slave”, which was published in 1852. The story is based on a slave revolt on board the Creole and Douglass invents the prehistory for the leader Madison Washington, who sailed the ship to Nassau, where all the slaves were set free. His main goal was to evoke awareness of the socio-historical circumstances during the 19th century. As the story was originally intended for white readers Douglass features many stereotypes in his novella to make the main character and hero of the story, Madison Washington, more appealing to his white audience and their white ideal.

Frederick Douglass

Author : Philip S. Foner
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613741472
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Frederick Douglass written by Philip S. Foner and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life—from the abolition of slavery to women's rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to black nationalism. Between 1950 and 1975, Philip S. Foner collected the most important of Douglass's hundreds of speeches, letters, articles, and editorials into an impressive five-volume set, now long out of print. Abridged and condensed into one volume, and supplemented with several important texts that Foner did not include, this compendium presents the most significant, insightful, and elegant short works of Douglass's massive oeuvre.

Righteous Violence

Author : Larry John Reynolds
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820328251
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Righteous Violence written by Larry John Reynolds and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Righteous Violence examines the struggles with the violence of slavery and revolution that engaged the imaginations of seven nineteenth-century American writers--Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. These authors responded not only to the state terror of slavery and the Civil War but also to more problematic violent acts, including unlawful revolts, insurrections, riots, and strikes that resulted in bloodshed and death. Rather than position these writers for or against the struggle for liberty, Larry J. Reynolds examines the profoundly contingent and morally complex perspectives of each author. Tracing the shifting and troubled moral arguments in their work, Reynolds shows that these writers, though committed to peace and civil order, at times succumbed to bloodlust, even while they expressed ambivalence about the very violence they approved. For many of these authors, the figure of John Brown loomed large as an influence and a challenge. Reynolds examines key works such as Fuller's European dispatches, Emerson's political lectures, Douglass's novella The Heroic Slave, Thoreau's Walden, Alcott's Moods, Hawthorne's late unfinished romances, and Melville's Billy Budd. In addition to demonstrating the centrality of righteous violence to the American Renaissance, this study deepens and complicates our understanding of political violence beyond the dichotomies of revolution and murder, liberty and oppression, good and evil.