Here is a link to the "Supplement" to Melville's volume of poetry, Battle-Pieces, which Julia so kindly read for us in class. If you want to draw on this essay for the debate on Melville's position on slavery, just remember that it was published in 1866, a decade after "Benito Cereno," so you'll need to account for that time lag (i.e., you'll have to make a case for retrospectively reading "Benito Cereno" through the lens of the later essay).
Homework for Thursday:
1) Reread "BC" p. 52-82; read the introduction p. 14-19
2) Group B comment on one of the blog posts by 11:59pm Friday
3) (Optional) Read extract from Amasa Delano's Narrative, p. 113-139.
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