Frederick Douglass's “The Heroic Slave”: Text, context, and interpretation
In November 1852, Frederick Douglass composed The Heroic Slave , a novella about Madison Washington's leadership of the 1841 Creole insurrection. In the novella, Douglass attempted to justify his adoption of political methods to the antislavery community. As literary models for his story, Dougl...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2005
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3179890 |