An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man

by William Apess

Genres: Nonfiction, Classics, School, Read For School, Short Stories, Essays, College

5 pages, Unknown Binding

About the author

1798-1839, also known as William Apes. Methodist preacher, writer and political activist of Pequot and mixed heritage. His book A Son of the Forest was among the first published autobiographies by a Native American.

Reviews

[Carolina · Rating 4 out of 5]

"I am satisfied with the matter of my creation, fully-whether others are or not."

[Rowan Bradley · Rating 5 out of 5]

snap

[Henriette]

"by what you read, you may learn how deep your principles are"

[Samira · Rating 4 out of 5]

" black or red skins, or any other skin of color is disgraceful to God, it appears that he has disgraced himself a great deal—for he has made fifteen colored people to one white, and placed them here upon this earth."

[Samantha Blackburn · Rating 4 out of 5]

American lit

[Bryn Frost · Rating 5 out of 5]

Genuinely the best rhetorical argument I think I’ve ever read. It felt like every sentence was able to come across logical, credible, and emotional aka rhetorical. Wow

[Danny · Rating 1 out of 5]

An important essay about being merely human in the world where race does not constitute the value of an individual, but their principle. Just, written so poorly.

[kaiya · Rating 4 out of 5]

read this for school and actually found it quite interesting!

[Emilie Nygård Berg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this for my American Literature class.