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you can infer that he indeed was an abolitionist. The scene where he describes how the black members of the crew are treated better in
Liverpool than in the US leads Redburn to think that the US does not take its own Constitution seriously enough. I also recall having read that he and Hathorne didn't
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Addendum: One, book not mentioned in this article is "Delano's
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Composition section, and I also switched Melville's 1885 picture for one that is not 30 years removed from when he wrote BC. Since this entry is about the story, not the writer, I wonder whether it would be a better idea to put Delano's image on top of
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I am very fond of this story, but am certainly no
Melville expert. Is there evidence he was an abolitionist, or had leanings that way? It would make analyzing and evaluating this work a lot easier, to know, one way or another.
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To my knowledge, no. After four and a half years you are probably not reading this answer, but it's good to clear it up anyway. Melville was in the South Sea when the US Supreme Court ruling over the
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needs to be backed by references and accompanied by appropriate cross-references, if correct; or deleted, if incorrect.
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