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Experience of five Christian Indians of the Pequod tribe [microform]
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First published September 29, 2013
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William Apess
34 books15 followers1798-1839, also known as William Apes. Methodist preacher, writer and political activist of Pequot and mixed heritage. His book A Son of the Forest was among the first published autobiographies by a Native American.
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January 24, 2023
Published in 1833, I had expected a glimpse into the mindset and speech patterns of individuals who started life living in Pequot settlements and learned English later. I did not expect the vast amount of time spent (quite rightly) calling out the racism and barbarity the individuals quoted here experienced at the hands of the "civilized" whites. Apess puts the blame squarely where it belongs; on the colonists who destroyed the native way of life and thus left entire communities reduced to abject poverty and despair.
How hard it is to be robbed of all our earthly rights…merely because the skin is of a different color. (17)
I would ask you if you would like to be disenfranchised from all your rights, merely because your skin if white, and for no other crime? I’ll venture to say, these very characters who hold the skin to such a barrier in the way, would be the first to cry out, injustice! awful injustice! (55)
If black or red skins, or any other skin of color is disgraceful to God, it appears that he has disgraced himself a great deal — for he has made fifteen colored people to one white, and placed them here upon this earth. (55)
Call-out culture, 1833 style!
How hard it is to be robbed of all our earthly rights…merely because the skin is of a different color. (17)
I would ask you if you would like to be disenfranchised from all your rights, merely because your skin if white, and for no other crime? I’ll venture to say, these very characters who hold the skin to such a barrier in the way, would be the first to cry out, injustice! awful injustice! (55)
If black or red skins, or any other skin of color is disgraceful to God, it appears that he has disgraced himself a great deal — for he has made fifteen colored people to one white, and placed them here upon this earth. (55)
Call-out culture, 1833 style!
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