Contents • xiii
2610 William Wells Brown (1815-1884) 2612 from Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine
2612
Chapter II, The Negro Sale
2614
Chapter X, The Quadroon's Home
2616
Chapter XI, To-Day a Mistress, To-Morrow a Slave
2618
Chapter XVIII, A Slave-Hunting Parson
2621 Herman Melville (1819-1891) 2625 Bartleby, the Scrivener
2651 The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
2651
I, The Paradise of Bachelors
2658
II, The Tartarus of Maids
2669 Benito Cereno 2727 Billy Budd, Sailor
2785 Hawthorne and His Mosses
2798 from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
2798
The Portent (1859)
2798
A Utilitarian View of the Monitors Fight
2799 The Maldive Shark 2800 from Timoleon
2800
Monody
2800
Art
2801 Alice Cary (1820-1871)
2803 from Clovernook, or Recollections of our Neighborhood in the West, First Series
2803
Preface
2804 from Clovernook, or Recollections of our Neighborhood
in the West, Second Series
2804
Uncle Christopher's
2819
Conclusion
2822 Elizabeth Stoddard (1823-1902) 2823 Lemorne Versus Huell
2836 Rebecca Harding Davis, 1831-1910 2838 Life in the Iron-Mills
2864 The Emergence of American Poetic Voices
2866 Songs and Ballads 2868 Songs of the Slaves
2868
Lay Dis Body Down
2869
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Had
2869
Deep River