Docsity
Docsity

Prepare for your exams
Prepare for your exams

Study with the several resources on Docsity


Earn points to download
Earn points to download

Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan


Guidelines and tips
Guidelines and tips

A different mirror chapter 6 in fleeing “the tyrant's heel", Study Guides, Projects, Research of American literature

Describes in fleeing the tyrants heel and also about behind the emigration:" john bull must have the beef".

Typology: Study Guides, Projects, Research

2021/2022
On special offer
30 Points
Discount

Limited-time offer


Uploaded on 03/31/2022

gangesha
gangesha 🇺🇸

4.6

(20)

239 documents

1 / 13

Toggle sidebar

This page cannot be seen from the preview

Don't miss anything!

bg1
pf3
pf4
pf5
pf8
pf9
pfa
pfd
Discount

On special offer

Partial preview of the text

Download A different mirror chapter 6 in fleeing “the tyrant's heel" and more Study Guides, Projects, Research American literature in PDF only on Docsity!

6 FLEEING “THE TYRANT’S HEEL” “Exiles” from Ireland ALIBAN COULD ALSO have been Irish. As we noted in chapter twa, like Caliban, the Irish were disposseased of their island by the English Prosperos. The Irish, too, were depicted and degraded as the “Other”—as “savages,” outside of “civilization,” and “wild.” Fleeing English oppression in the nineteenth century, millions of Irish crossed the Atlantic to America. Thus, the age of Jackson witnessed not only Indian removal and the expansion of slavery, but also the great influx of immigrants frum Ireland. Suddenly, blacks in the North were competing with Irish workers. “Every hour sees us elbowed out of some employment to make room perhaps for some newly arrived immigrants, whose hunger and color are thought to give them a title to special favor/.Exedcrick Douglass complained. “White men are becoming house servants, cooks, stewards, common laborers and flunkeys to our gentry.” Then he warned that Irish immigrants would soon find that in taking “our vocation,” they had also assumed “our degradation.” But Douglass found himself empa- thizing with the Irish. During a visit to Ireland in the 1840s, he witnessed the terrible suffering inflicted by the Potato Famine and was “much affected” on hearing the “wailing notes” of Irish ballads that reminded him of the “wild notes” of slave songs?