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American Literature (Gothic Literature often deals with the inability of…

- - - - copious mentions of "marvels"; descriptions of natives; guile, naked, open to trade
  - - - Black Hawk takes to task a treaty members of the Sauk Nation were forced to sign at St. Louis ceding Sauk land to the federal government in 1804
        His writings focus on language as a manipulation; a tool of oppression
- - - - Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence vs. Frederick Douglass "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
        
        "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." -July 4, 1776
        
        "Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you this day rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me." -Frederick Douglass 1852, 1855
      - Harriet Jacobs "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is the first female written slave narrative in the United States
        Slave narratives were written by enslaved Africans in Britain and its colonies and the U.S.
        
        Her parents were enabled to live together despite having different masters. As a child Jacobs was unaware that she was a slave. Upon her mother's death, she came under the sexually threatening presence of a new owner.
        Became involved with an unmarried white man and had two children with him
        Hid for seven years in her grandmother's attic
        Escaped to the North in 1842 and evaded slave catchers
        Her friend Cornelia Willis purchased her freedom in 1852
  - - - "Insist upon yourself; never imitate." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
        
        Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller all practitioners and advocates of the movement
        
        "If we do not get out sleepers, and forge rails, and devote days and nights to the work, but go to tinkering upon our lives to improve them, who will build railroads? And if railroads are not built, how shall we get to heaven in season? But if we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads? We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us." -Thoreau; Walden, 1854
- - - - In the story's use of implied incest and the house exacting itself upon Roderick deals with concepts of moral disintegration needing to be punished
        Incest cannot stand
        30 years before Reconstruction
- - - - Concept of "twoness" would define DuBois' work
        "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, who dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."