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Article: Son of the Forest, A
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SON OF THE FOREST, A
SON OF THE FOREST, A
(1829; revised 1831) was the first of five books written by the Pequot preacher and orator William Apess. This narrative of Apess's life and conversion to Methodism excoriates Christian hypocrisy toward, and misrepresentation of, native people, a pronounced theme in all his work. By 1832, Apess had relocated from New York to Boston, where he became associated with both the anti-removal and antislavery movements. His second book,
Experiences of Five Christian Indians of the Pequot Tribe
(1833), shows his exposure to both in its account of the absurdity of color as a signifier of racial inferiority. Enlisted by Cape Cod's Mashpee Indians to aid ...
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