Fire on the Water: Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886

ISBN-13: 9781684480173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 182 str.

Lenora Warren

Opis

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.