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The Minority presence in American literature, 1600-1900 : a reader and course guide
Item details
- ISBN: 0882581015
- ISBN: 9780882581019
- ISBN: 0882580612
- ISBN: 9780882580616
- ISBN: 0882581023
- ISBN: 9780882581026
- ISBN: 0882581007
- ISBN: 9780882581002
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Physical Description:
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2 volumes ; 24 cm - Publisher: Washington : Howard University Press, 1977.
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | Includes indexes. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, pages 439-444; v. 2, p. 407-412). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | v. 1. Of the nature and manners of the people / Thomas Hariot -- Saved by Pocahontas / John Smith -- Betrothed to Pocahontas ; The black record begins / John Rolfe -- Profitable unto them / William Bradford -- Converts of "the Apostle to the Indians" / John Eliot -- In grievous captivity / Mary Rowlandson -- Slaves and the slave trade ; The selling of Joseph ; Indian boundaries / Samuel Sewall -- Hannah Dustan and the Indians ; On the conversion of Negroes / Cotton Mather -- Indulgent Connecticut / Sarah Kemble Knight -- A visit to Virginia's Indians / William Byrd -- Observations concerning the increase of mankind, peopling of countries, etc. ; Indians and Germans in Pennsylvania ; If it be right to kill men ; Savage we call them / Benjamin Franklin -- I believe liberty is their right / John Woolman -- To the University of Cambridge, in New-England ; On being brought from Africa to America / Phillis Wheatley -- Are not these blacks thy children? / St. Jean de Crèvecoeur -- Daniel Boone's last adventures ; Indian genius / John Filson -- A black minister held captive by the Cherokees / John Marrant -- Red men and black men ; Benjamin Banneker ; Talent is no measure of rights ; Virginia's definition of a mulatto ; African colonization / Thomas Jefferson -- A race under abuse and censure / Benjamin Banneker -- On the diversity of the human species ; The trial of Mamachtaga, an Indian / Hugh Henry Brackenridge -- To Sir Toby ; The death song of a Cherokee Indian ; The prophecy of King Tammany ; The Indian burying ground ; The Indian convert ; The Indian student / Philip Freneau -- A black soul in a white body / Royall Tyler -- Portrait of an emigrant / Charles Brockden Brown -- Philip of Pokanoket ; The Creole village / Washington Irving -- An Indian at the burial-place of his fathers ; The African chief / William Cullen Bryant -- Chingachgook, a noble savage ; An humbled and much degraded race ; Frolicking blacks in old Manhattan / James Fenimore Cooper -- The happy slaves of Swallow Barn / John Pendleton Kennedy -- Backwoods incidents / Davy Crockett -- The white nigger / Thomas Chandler Haliburton -- Indian warfare on the Kentucky border / Robert Montgomery Bird -- The commencement crowd at Williams College, 1838 ; The Duston family / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Sioux and old Toby / Edgar Allan Poe -- California and its inhabitants / Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -- The slave's dream ; The quadroon girl ; The Jewish cemetery at Newport ; Hiawatha's wooing / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The civilization of the Negro / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The right to write ; David Ruggles and Sojourner Truth / Frederick Douglass -- The prejudice of color ; A Chippewa legend / James Russell Lowell -- Plantation philanderer ; The noble North American Indian / William Gilmore Simms -- The black Saxons / Lydia Maria Child -- Black shipmates and Irish emigrants ; Poor Pip! ; A close shave ; Formerly a slave / Herman Melville -- At a Dahcotah village / Francis Parkman -- Black, white, and red in Seminole land / Mayne Reid -- Uncle Tom's cabin / George L. Aiken -- Light slave and white slave : Clotel and Salome / William Wells Brown -- Irishmen and others in Walden Woods / Henry David Thoreau. |
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| Subject: | American literature Minorities United States Literary collections Littérature américaine Minorités États-Unis Anthologies American literature Minorities United States |
| Genre: | Literature. Literary collections. Literature. |
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