Sons of the forest : the native American Jeremiad materialized in the social protest rhetoric of William Apess, 1829-1836

Willie J. Harrell

Willie J. Harrell, Jr. is associate professor of English at Kent State University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in African-American Literature. He is author of Origins of the African American Jeremiad: The Rhetorical Strategies of Social Protest and Activism, 1760-1861 (McFarland, 2011) and editor of We Wear the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Politics of Representative Reality (Kent State University Press, 2010). Email: wharrell@kent.edu