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Article: Melodramas of Rebellion: Metamora and the Literary Historiography of King Philip's War in the 1820s
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- The Arizona Quarterly
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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"It is not now a time to talk of aught
But chains, or conquest, liberty, or death"
Cato, in Joseph Addison's Cato (1712) 2.4.79-80
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course other
s may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death"
Patrick Henry in the Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775
"Death! Death! Or my nation's freedom!"
Metamora, in Stone's Metamora; or,
The Last of the Wampanoags (1829) 5.3.75
Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags marked the height of a craze for Indian chiefs as tragic heroes on the American stage. Beginning with John Nelson Barker's 1808 dramatization of ...