ASH3002y Class Notes
April 26, 1999

Slavery, the Slave Power, and Abolition: Politics and
Configurations of Power

Administrivia:

• Project check in

Melville conclusion:

• Ishmael's reaction to Ahab
• Ishmael's vision of the whale
• Issues of division and unity
• Return briefly to political context

Politics:

• Check in on reading--what textbooks did you read?
• The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

Responses:

• Frederick Douglass, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro:  Speech at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852," The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th ed., vol. 1, pp. 2057-2076.
• Henry David Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts," The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th ed., vol. 1, pp. 1943-1953.
• Abolition  and   Conflict of Abolition and Slavery in the Library of Congress's exhibit on the African-American Mosaic