The Colonial and Revolutionary eras. "The Selling of Joseph": Samuel Sewall and the iniquity of slavery -- The "domestic insurrections" of the Declaration of Independence -- Blacks in Massachusetts and the Shays' Rebellion -- Civil War. The miscegenation issue of the Election of 1864 -- The Black soldier of the Civil War in literature and art -- Fiction and fantasy. Poe's Pym: an introduction to The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- Towards Pip and Daggoo: Footnote on Melville's youth -- Herman Melville and the American national sin: the meaning of Benito Cereno -- The octoroon: early history of the drama of miscegenation -- Art. Notes on the exhibition: the portrayal of the Negro in American painting -- Invention. Lewis Temple and the hunting of the whale -- Appendix: a note on John Mashow, master builder of whaleships -- Jan Earnst Matzeliger and the making of the shoe.