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The Life of William Apess, Pequot /

The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (1798-1839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess's fascinating and consequential life. After an impoverished childhood marked...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gura, Philip F., 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cruel beginnings (1798-1812)
  • War, wandering, and home (1812-1829)
  • Interlude: a Methodist life composed (1829-1831)
  • Evangelist and organizer (1831-1833)
  • The Mashpee Revolt (1833-1834)
  • King Philip's heir (1835-1836)
  • Mashpee to Washington Street (1837-1839)
  • Living with "color."