By William Apess
This ebook brings jointly the best-known works of the 19th-century Indian author William Apess, together with the 1st prolonged autobiography via a local American. The textual content is drawn from ON OUR personal floor, which was once named a call striking educational e-book. This new version of Apess's vintage texts is designed for lecture room use .
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His birth was not documented and only because he announces it in his autobiography, A Son of the Forest, do we know when and where he was born. His parents were both poor laborers, his father a shoemaker and his mother a servant in gentry households before she had her first child. Like most people of their classIndian, African American, or whitein this period, his parents moved often, in and around Colchester in the Pequot homelands in southeastern Connecticut, to Hartford Page xi and up the Connecticut River Valley, and perhaps occasionally south to New York City, to find work or better or more affordable dwelling places.
Furman, the good neighbor who had brought milk and petitioned the selectmen. Such an incident might seem only confirmation of powerful stereotypes 1. His parents' names appear as "Apes" in all the documents I have examined. I risk the confusion of spelling their names differently than his to remain consistent with those documents. Apess himself changed the spelling from "Apes" to "Apess" very deliberately in the second editions of The Experiences of Five Christian Indians (1837) and the Eulogy on King Philip (1837).
From whom is a question that remains to further scholarship. Someone else might be the author of these writings and Apess so only in name. Ghostwriters and other forms of editorial hands were common in the rapidly developing commercial publishing and writing institutions of the United States in the 1820s and 1830s. The success of The Memoirs of Catharine Brown (1824), an account of one of the first Cherokee Christians, which was widely Page xix distributed through the evangelical networks, might easily have been seen as justification for someone in the New York or Boston publishing scene to take down and edit Apess's reminiscences.