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American Studies in Black and White : Selected Essays, 1949-1989
author
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Kaplan, Sidney.; Austin, Allan D.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870234692
print isbn13
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9780870234699
ebook isbn13
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9780585193595
language
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English
subject
African Americans--History, United States--Civilization.
publication date
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1991
lcc
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E185.K262 1991eb
ddc
:
973.04/96073
subject
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African Americans--History, United States--Civilization.
Page iii
American Studies In Black and White
Selected Elected Essays 19491989
Sidney Kaplan Edited by Allan D. Austin Foreword by John Hope Franklin
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS AMHERST
Page iv
Copyright 1991 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
LC 90-47298 ISBN 0-87023-469-2 Text designed by Susan Bishop Set in Linotron Sabon text and Weiss display type Printed and Bound by Thomson-Shore
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kaplan, Sidney, 1913 [Selections. 1991] American studies in black and white : selected essays, 19491989 / Sidney Kaplan; edited by Allan D. Austin; foreword by John Hope Franklin. p. cm. ISBN 0-87023-469-2 (alk. paper) 1. Afro-AmericansHistory. 2. United StatesCivilization. I. Austin, Allan D., 1935 . II. Title. EI85.K262 1991 973.04'96073dc20 90-47298
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data are available.
This book is published with the support and cooperation of the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Excerpts from "For the Union Dead" from For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell, copyright 1960, 1964 by Robert Lowell are reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Inc., and Faber and Faber, Ltd.
The chapters in this book were previously published. Their earlier appearances and permissions to reprint are listed on the last printed page of this book.
Page v
To the memory of Morris Nogrady who began it all
Page vii
CONTENTS
Foreword by John Hope Franklin
ix
Editor's Introduction
xi
The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras
"The Selling of Joseph": Samuel Sewall and the Iniquity of Slavery
3
The "Domestic Insurrections" of the Declaration of Independence
18
Blacks in Massachusetts and the Shays' Rebellion
33
Civil War
The Miscegenation Issue in the Election of 1864
47
The Black Soldier of the Civil War in Literature and Art
101
Fiction and Fantasy
Poe's Pym: An Introduction to The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
127
Towards Pip and Daggoo: Footnote on Melville's Youth
144
Herman Melville and the American National Sin: The Meaning of Benito Cereno
159
The Octoroon: Early History of the Drama of Miscegenation
198
Art
Notes on the Exhibition: The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting
211
Invention
Lewis Temple and the Hunting of the Whale
229
Appendix: A Note on John Mashow, Master Builder of Whaleships
229
Jan Earnst Matzeliger and the Making of the Shoe
240
Acknowledgments
259
Page ix
FOREWORD
It was forty years ago that Sidney Kaplan came into my summer session class at Harvard. Almost immediately I realized that he was out of place, not because he was somewhat older than most of the students, but because it was clear from the first time he spoke that he was both knowledgeable and wise. Long before the end of the summer I regarded him as a colleague from whom I had learned a great deal. He was already into Melville and had read materials and raised questions that were entirely new to me. I was even more fascinated by what he already knew about whaling, not merely because he had read and reread Moby Dick, but also because he was studying the contribution of the humble African American Lewis Temple to the whaling industry through his invention of the toggle. This was regarded by one authority as the most important single invention in the entire history of whaling. If one was interested in the "contributions" of African Americans to American life, Kaplan seemed to be more than adequately informed.
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