Two Slave Rebellions at Sea: The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

by Herman Melville

Book Overview

Fredrick Douglass (1818-1895), a fugitive slave who became the best-known black abolitionist orator and autobiographer, and Herman Melville (1819-1891), a fiction writer recognized for the elusiveness of his meanings, both composed stories about slave revolts at sea. In the decade just before the Civil War, during years of increasingly angry debate about slavery, Douglass in "The Heroic Slave" (1853) and Melville in "Benito Cereno" (1855) fictionalized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881089452
• ISBN13: 9781881089452
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"