Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Part 1: The Text of Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave
6. The Heroic Slave 3
7. A Note on the Text 53
8. Part 2: Contemporary Responses to the Creole Rebellion, 1841–1843
9. “Another Amistad Case—What Will Grow Out of It?” 57
10. “The Creole Mutiny” 62
11. Protest of the Officers and Crew of the American Brig Creole 66
12. “The Hero Mutineers” 75
13. Deposition of William H. Merritt 81
14. Deposition of William H. Merritt 85
15. Daniel Webster, Letter to Edward Everett 88
16. William Ellery Channing, from The Duty of the Free States, or Remarks Suggested by the Case of the Creole 99
17. Joshua R. Giddings, Resolutions 104
18. Henry Highland Garnet, from “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America” 107
19. Part 3: Douglass on the Creole and Black Revolution
20. Frederick Douglass, from “American Prejudice against Color” 111
21. Frederick Douglass, from “America’s Compromise with Slavery and the Abolitionists’ Work” 116
22. Frederick Douglass, from “American and Scottish Prejudice against the Slave” 118
23. Frederick Douglass, from “Meeting in Faneuil Hall” 121
24. Frederick Douglass, from “Address at the Great Anti-Colonization Meeting in New York” 123
25. Frederick Douglass, from “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” 127
26. Frederick Douglass, from “West India Emancipation” 133
27. Frederick Douglass, “A Black Hero” 138
28. Part 4: Narratives of the Creole Rebellion, 1855–1901
29. William C. Nell, “Madison Washington” 143
30. Samuel Ringgold Ward, “Men and Women of Mark” 147
31. William Wells Brown, “Slave Revolt at Sea” 150
32. Lydia Maria Child, “Madison Washington” 161
33. Robert Purvis, “A Priceless Picture: History of Sinque, the Hero of the Amistad” 168
34. Pauline E. Hopkins, “A Dash for Liberty” 178
35. Part 5: Criticism
36. Robert B. Stepto, from “Storytelling in Early Afro-American Fiction” 189
37. William L. Andrews, from “The Novelization of Voice in Early African American Narrative” 202
38. Richard Yarborough, from “Race, Violence, and Manhood” 207
39. Maggie Montesinos Sale, from “The Heroic Slave” 220
40. Celeste-Marie Bernier, from “‘Arms like Polished Iron’” 226
41. Ivy G. Wilson, from “Transnationalism, Frederick Douglass, and ‘The Heroic Slave’” 231
42. Carrie Hyde, from “The Climates of Liberty” 238
43. Chronology of Frederick Douglass, Madison Washington, and Resistance to Slavery 251
44. Selected Bibliography 263