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Two Slave Rebellions at Sea: "The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass and "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville.(Book Review)

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From: The Journal of Negro History
Date: 20010101
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Two Slave Rebellions at Sea: "The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass and "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville. Edited and introduced by George Hendrink and Willene Hendrick. (Waterbury: Brandywine, 2001. Pp. 160)

In these two stories on slave rebellions at sea, one by a former black American slave and another by a white American writer, two different perspectives are found. In Douglass's story, which is based on the mutiny of the Creole, the mutineers are successful and the author expresses the theme that the slaves wanted freedom and the violent means by which it was obtained ...

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