Description: 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

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