A History of American Literature
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 127 Those who spoke out most powerfully against slavery, however, and the violation of selfhood it ...
128 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 built her a little hut in the woods and then left her there to fend for herself, “thus virtual ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 129 “graceful proportions.” And any white mistress, Douglass tells the reader, is wracked by resen ...
130 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 and hypocrisy of the slave system – and, above all, about how that system dehumanizes not only ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 131 father was a skilled man, a carpenter, Jacobs recalls; and, on condition of paying his mistres ...
132 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 his or her sympathy, than there is to abstract principles or emotions of anger. Men are a shad ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 133 have promised to tell you the truth.” That emphasis on truth, the assurance that, as Jacobs pu ...
134 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 American writers at this time: that urge toward self-emancipation that the writings of the Tra ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 135 at various stages in his life, they are all marked by a debt to English and American Romantic ...
136 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 more aware of Native American history, their rights and, often, how badly they had been treate ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 137 parents were converted to Christianity in 1827 and he himself similarly converted three years ...
138 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 speech, on Independence Day, he was coming to the end of a long career as a mediator between h ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 139 Boudinot proudly claims. So, too, may all other Indians; all are “susceptible of attainments n ...
140 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 greater Southwest and California, those Mexican lands that prior to 1845 stretched from the Ri ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 141 individual significance of these three female icons varies, of course, and they are clearly di ...
142 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 narratives of writers like Douglass and Jacobs but also the polemic of such African-Americans ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 143 suspicious circumstances; it certainly wanted him dead. But, even after Walker’s sudden death, ...
144 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 And they were Americans who, up until then, had been excluded from the American dream. “Two hu ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 145 A poem called “Division of an Estate,” for example, is remarkable for the sympathy it inspires ...
146 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 Independence, ‘that all men are created equal,’ ” be realized in practice. That was why, he re ...
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