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Frederick Douglass

The Heroic Slave

A Cultural and Critical Edition

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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 fr… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-300-18462-4
  • EAN: 9780300184624
  • Produktnummer: 16864431
  • Verlag: Yale University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.5 cm 364 g
  • Abbildungen: 6 b-w illus.
  • Gewicht: 364

Über den Autor


Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an American social reformer, orator, author, and statesman. Robert S. Levine is professor of English at the University of Maryland. John Stauffer is chair of the History of American Civilization and professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. John R. McKivigan is Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.

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