![]() And abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, who approvingly reported Apess's activities in his Liberator, organized a fundraiser (featuring the "Garrison Juvenile Choir") for the benefit of the Mashpee delegation when they came to Boston to present their case (p. Combing newspaper databases, Lopenzina amplifies our knowledge of when and where Apess preached and lectured. An Englishman recorded in his memoir that, travelling from Ohio to New York in 1833, he approvingly read Apess's ("a converted Indian) autobiography, an interesting hint regarding how widely it circulated (p. A Methodist circuit rider recalled visiting the Pequot in the early nineteenth century and heard a young "lad about twelve or fourteen years of age," who "arose and exhorted sinners to repentance, in the most pathetic manner" (p. Lopenzina provides other interesting information. ![]() That same year he published a hitherto-unnoticed essay on the Indians' relation to the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel (p. Apess was ordained in the Protestant Methodist Church on August 8, 1831, and not in 1829, as we had thought (p. In 1831, when Apess was living in Groton, Connecticut, and ministering to the Pequot, a white man broke into his home and severely beat him, an example of the period's sometimes-violent race relations (pp. Apess first delivered his Eulogy on King Philip in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the summer of 1835 and not in Boston in 1836, as we had thought (p. 1 What does Lopenzina add to the record? He unearths some important facts. Since the republication of Apess's writings twenty-five years ago, many scholars have investigated his life and work a book-length biography appeared just two years ago. Then, at the age of forty-one, on the cusp of an even greater role in behalf of Indigenous people, in a lower Manhattan boardinghouse Apess died of "apoplexy"-what, in his biography of Apess, Drew Lopenzina identifies as "a textbook case of appendicitis" (p. He published this effort and continued to speak out on Native American rights in New York City and as far south as Washington, D. Next, Apess delivered a popular Eulogy on King Philip in which he argued against the traditional filiopietistic reading of King Philip's War (1675–1676) to which the Puritans' descendants still adhered. He assumed leadership of the Mashpee tribe's fight to abolish state guardianship of their lands on Cape Cod, successfully argued their case to the Massachusetts legislature, and published an account of their struggle. As a Methodist minister he traveled throughout the Northeast preaching to Indigenous, "colored" (that is, African American or mixed race), and white people. ![]() During the War of 1812 he fought for the United States on the New York/Canadian front. ![]() While Amherst College Archives & Special Collections claims no rights or authority over this material, we do ask that any publication or use of this material cite the Archives & Special Collections at Amherst College as the source of the images and the repository where the original documents can be found.Ĭontact host institution for more information.William Apess (1798-1839) published several important works, including an autobiography, and is rightly regarded as one of the founders of Native American letters. Public Domain: We believe this material to be in the public domain and free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. Location: Amherst College Archives & Special Collections E90.A5 A5 1829 c.2 (shelf locator)Ĭollection (local): Younghee Kim-Wait (Class of 1982)/Pablo Eisenberg Collection of Native American Literature A son of the forest : the experience of William Apes, a native of the forest : comprising a notice of the Pequod tribe of IndiansĬreator: Apess, William, 1798-1839 Publisher: Apess, William, 1798-1839 Former owner: Eisenberg, Pablo Date:
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