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Although not restricted legally, the fugitives were not welcomed by many white Canadians. The Heroic Slave 13 freely given; and he therefore, with many thanks, took his seat at the table with Mr. and Mrs. Listwell, who, desirous to make him feel at home, took a cup of tea themselves, while urging upon Madison the best that the house could afford. Supper over, all doubts and apprehensions banished, the three drew around the blazing fire, and a conversation commenced which lasted till long after midnight.

In our judgment, the likely pirating would have been in 1853, when the novella was before the public eye; Bernier hypothesizes a Civil War reprinting in 1863. 2. Pirated edition of The Heroic Slave, from Alain Locke, The New Negro (1925). Widener Library, Harvard University. Introduction xxxv Interpretation (1925), an influential collection of essays on black art and culture published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. The illustration accompanying William Stanley Braithwaite’s chapter, titled “The Negro in American Literature,” depicts the cover page of the pirated edition of The Heroic Slave (see figure 2).

He had done something “to deliver the spoiled out of the hands of the spoiler,”27 he had given bread to the hungry, and clothes to the naked;28 he had befriended a man to whom the laws of his country forbade all friendship, —and in proportion to the odds against his righteous deed, was the delightful satisfaction that gladdened his heart.

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