Table of Contents

Introduction. Multiculturalism: Roots and Realities, C. James Trotman

1. "The Lives Grown out of His Life: Frederick Douglass, Multiculturalism, and Diversity
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Part 1. Douglass and Slave Narratives
2. Frederick Douglass’s American "We"
Julie Husband
3. Adding Her Testimony: Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents As Testimonial Literature
Jeannine DeLombard
4. Water Rites: Navigating Passage and Social Transformation in American Slave and Travel Narratives
Richard Hardack

Part 2. Race and Slavery
5. James Forten and "The Gentlemen of the Pave": Race, Wealth, and Power in Antebellum Philadelphia
Julie Winch
6. David Walker,African Rights, and Liberty
Verner D. Mitchell
7. African American Protest and the Role of Haitian Pavilion in The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893
Barbara J. Ballard
8. Race, Womanhood, and the Tragic Mulatta: An Issue of Ambiguity
Christine Palumbo-DeSimone

Part 3. Images of Women
9. My Sisters Toil: Voice in Anti-Slavery Poetry by White Female Factory Workers
Susan Alves
10. Enacting Culture: Zora Neale Hurston’s Revision of Joel Chandler Harris
Juniper Ellis
11. Abby Kelley Foster: A Feminist Voice Reconsidered, 1810-1887
Richard E. Greene

Part 4. Exploring the Canon
12. African American Childhood in Early Philadelphia
Janet Shannon
13. Border Controls of Race and Gender: Crane’s The Monster and Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman
Matthew Wilson
14. "Moral Authority," History, and the Case of Canonization: William Wells Brown’s Clotel and Clotelle
Gillian Johns
15. Mark Twain and the Multicultural Imagination
Joe B. Fulton

About the Author

C. James Trotman is Professor of English and founding director of the Frederick Douglass Institute at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. He teaches courses in American literature and is the author of Langston Hughes: The Man, His Art, And His Continuing Influence.