Fire on the Water - Sailors, Slaves, Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789

Tells 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 experiences either inspired or found resonance within fiction.

List of contents

Illustrations

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

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

 

About the author

Lenora Warren is an assistant professor of English at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Summary

Tells 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 experiences either inspired or found resonance within fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Lenora Warren
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781684480173
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-017-3
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research