What makes a person heroic? And what possibilities for heroism even exist under slavery-for whites or blacks? Could they act together to lift the the great national curse? The work is brief, dramatic, and compelling, showing the gift for expression that made Douglass such a powerful figure on the anti-slavery platform. It is his only known work of “fiction,” and it is interesting especially for its prismatic point of view: a black writer’s account of white men describing a black hero. Jewett and Company Cleveland, OH: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington London: Low and Company 1853 E449. Douglass contributed the story in 1853 to a book of collected pieces by anti-slavery writers and reformers. (novella title) The Heroic Slave (caption) The Heroic Slave (book title) Autographs for Freedom Frederick Douglass Julia Griffiths 174-239, 65 p. Lastly, Tom Grant, the mate on the slave transport Creole, describes the ship’s takeover by its human cargo and its passage to the British Bahamas, where 128 men and women stepped out of bondage and into freedom. Listwell from Ohio sees Madison enslaved in Virginia, then a fugitive in Ohio, and finally a recaptured returnee bound from Richmond to the slave markets of New Orleans. His story is told through the eyes and words of two white men. Frederick Douglass based this story on the real-life heroism of Madison Washington, who led the largest successful slave revolt in U.S. The Heroic Slave, a Heartwarming Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington, in Pursuit of Liberty is a short piece of fiction, or novella, written by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, at the time a fugitive slave based in Boston.
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