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On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot » Read Now
by William Apess, Barry O'Connell. 344 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

"Makes available in a superb scholarly edition not only the first published autobiography by a native American (1829 originally), but also a range of historical, political, and personal writings". -- New York Times Book Review
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Captivity and Conversion: William Apess, Mary Jemison, and Narratives of Racial Identity, in American Indian Quarterly » Read Now
by Hilary E. Wyss. 20 pgs.

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...Captivity and Conversion William Apess, Mary Jemison, and Narratives...Two nineteenth-century figures--William Apess and Mary Jemison--challenge Euro...The narratives of...
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Dialogue and Public Discourse in William Apess's Indian Nullification, in ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly) » Read Now
by Theresa Strouth Gaul. 19 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Gaul Though Pequot author William Apess has recently begun to receive...in the countrys public life. William Apess (1798-1839?), who was of Pequot...pages of Indian...
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Divine Destiny: Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century Protestantism (Chap. Two "'A Mark for Them All to...Hiss At': The Formation of Methodist and Pequot Identity in the Conversion Narrative of William Apess") » Read Now
by Carolyn A. Haynes. 194 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

American culture was firmly undergirded by two dominant rhetorics during the nineteenth century: manifest destiny and domesticity. The first celebrated a divinely ordained spread of democracy, individualism, capitalism, and civilization throughout the North American continent. The second codified...
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American culture was firmly undergirded by two dominant rhetorics during the nineteenth century: manifest destiny and domesticity. The first celebrated a divinely ordained spread of democracy, individualism, capitalism, and civilization throughout the North American continent. The second codified "natural" differences and duties of American men and women.
While the two rhetorics were touted as "universal" in their application and appeal, in actuality both assumed a belief in masculine Anglo-Saxon American superiority. The triumph of the nation could be accomplished only through the concomitant removal, acculturation, or elimination of nonwhite peoples and through a careful circumscription of white women. The rhetorics not only were linked through a virulent ethnocentrism and misogyny but also were connected through their reliance on the Protestant belief system and on the church itself.
Yet, curiously, despite their exclusion from the Protestant rhetorics of manifest destiny and domesticity, the nineteenth century featured a remarkable growth in the conversion of women and nonwhite men to the Protestant faith. Why did women and nonwhite men seek to join a dominant religion that in many ways set out to limit and oppress them?
This book responds to that question by exploring the actual words and rhetorical choices made by some of the most progressive Protestant white, African-American, and Native American thinkers of the era: Olaudah Equiano, William Apess, Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, and Amanda Berry Smith. It argues that American Protestantism was both prohibitive and constitutive, offering its followers an expedient, acceptable but limited means forassuming social and political power and for forming a mutually empathetic, relational notion of self while at the same time foreclosing the possibility for more radical roles and social change.
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Rewriting White: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America (Chap. 2 "William Apess's Theater and a 'Native' American History") » Read Now
by Todd Vogel. 196 pgs.

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Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms (Chap. 3 "The Irony and Mimicry of William Apess") » Read Now
by Cheryl Walker. 262 pgs.

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...3. The Irony and Mimicry of William Apess 41 4. Black Hawk...of a Paiute woman, or when William Apess uses King Philip as an American...nation. George Copway Ojibwa ...
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Marching to a Different Drummer: Unrecognized Heroes of American History ("William Apess(January 31, 1798-?): Native American Rights Leader" begins on p. 1) » Read Now
by Robin Kadison Berson. 346 pgs.

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These 35 little known heroes and heroines of American history from across the ethnic spectrum have been virtually ignored in traditional history books. Their inspiring biographical profiles reveal the struggle, in the face of entrenched opposition, for a just, equitable, and humane society. More...
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These 35 little known heroes and heroines of American history from across the ethnic spectrum have been virtually ignored in traditional history books. Their inspiring biographical profiles reveal the struggle, in the face of entrenched opposition, for a just, equitable, and humane society. More than half of the profiles are of women, one fourth are of African-Americans, and Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latino and Chicano Americans are also represented. Each profile integrates the individual life with a detailed explanation of the historical context, and each entry provides excerpts from primary sources--speeches, writings, and interviews--and is followed by broad bibliographical references. Subject lists by chronology, gender, ethnicity, and focus of the biographee's concern will enable the student to select an appropriate subject for investigation and reports.
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That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community ("Occom, Apess, and Jones" begins on p. 49) » Read Now
by Jace Weaver. 240 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In one of the broadest critical readings to date, Jace Weaver takes the body of Native American literature and uses it as a resource for reflection on Native American values and spirituality.
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The Claiming of Christ: Native American Postcolonial Discourses, in MELUS » Read Now
by Irene S. Vernon. 15 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...first Christian Native writers was William Apess (b. 1798), a mixed blood with...Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1936. Apess, William. The Experience of Five Christian...the...