Fire on the Water : : Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886 / / Lenora Warren.
Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (170 p.) :; 2 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1. Witness to the Atrocities: Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade
- 2. Denmark Vesey, John Howison, and Revolutionary Possibility
- 3. Joseph Cinqué, The Amistad Mutiny, and Revolutionary Whitewashing
- 4. The Black and White Sailor: Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode
- Coda
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR