Audio only
Length7h 13m
About this audiobook
The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess' fascinating and consequential life.
After an impoverished childhood marked by abuse, Apess soldiered with American troops during the War of 1812, converted to Methodism, and rose to fame as a lecturer who lifted a powerful voice of protest against the plight of Native Americans in New England and beyond. His 1829 autobiography, A Son of the Forest, stands as the first published by a Native American writer.
Placing Apess' activism on behalf of Native American people in the context of the era's rising tide of abolitionism, Gura argues that this founding figure of Native intellectual history deserves greater recognition in the pantheon of antebellum reformers.
Following Apess from his early life through the development of his political radicalism to his tragic early death and enduring legacy, this much-needed biography showcases the accomplishments of an extraordinary Native American.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.0 (18)
Includes Goodreads
GenreBiography and Memoir, History
Length7 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byTraber Burns
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 2, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Invisible StormJason Kander6h 48m4.7 (3.2K)$24 · $0.00
Forever BoyKate Swenson9h 27m4.7 (5K)$29 · $0.00
You Are Worth ItKyle Carpenter, Don Yaeger8h 53m4.7 (4.8K)$29 · $0.00
The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m4.6 (178K)$7 · $0.00
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m4.7 (2.5K)$40 · $0.00
Evidence Not SeenDarlene Deibler Rose11h 11m4.6 (11.9K)$29 · $0.00
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m4.7 (351)$20 · $0.00
Will You Love Me?Cathy Glass9h 5m4.6 (9.3K)$29 · $0.00
Designing Terry Pratchett’s DiscworldPaul Kidby3h 52m4.7 (343)$20 · $0.00
HostageEli Sharabi5h 25m4.6 (10.8K)$24 · $0.00
Finding MeViola Davis9h 15m4.6 (256.4K)$29 · $0.00
The Dangerous Truth about Today’s MarijuanaLaura Stack CSP, MBA9h 57m4.7 (384)$20 · $0.00
Birdie & HarlowTaylor Wolfe7h 50m4.6 (6.5K)$26 · $0.00
The Lives of BrianBrian Johnson9h 45m4.6 (3.5K)$29 · $0.00
I Am The StormJanice Dean9h4.6 (1.5K)$8 · $0.00
Black History CollectionFrederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois27h 9m4.6 (2.6K)$18 · $0.00
Just as I AmCicely Tyson16h 8m4.6 (99K)$33 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m4.6 (2.6K)$8 · $0.00
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m4.6 (16.7K)$26 · $0.00
My Bondage and My Freedom (Annotated)Frederick Douglass15h 30m4.6 (2.4K)$2 · $0.00
A Brief History of IntelligenceMax S. Bennett12h 18m4.6 (6.6K)$29 · $0.00
Ghosts of HiroshimaCharles Pellegrino8h 59m4.5 (877)$23
We Crossed a Bridge and It TrembledWendy Pearlman6h4.6 (5.2K)$24 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m4.6 (2.6K)$8 · $0.00
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m4.6 (16.7K)$26 · $0.00
Lily's PromiseLily Ebert, Dov Forman8h 54m4.6 (16.1K)$29 · $0.00
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m4.6 (6.5K)$29 · $0.00
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m4.6 (927)$29 · $0.00
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and BeyondJohn Lyons12h 37m4.6 (1.4K)$33 · $0.00
BeyondStephen Walker15h 39m4.6 (3.2K)$33 · $0.00
Kings and PawnsHoward Bryant10h 9m4.6 (678)$29 · $0.00
No EscapeNury Turkel9h 30m4.6 (809)$28 · $0.00
Jubal Stone: U.S. Marshal: Blood Trail To Hell: A Western Adventure NovelCasey Nash3h 42m4.6 (3.2K)$18 · $0.00
Fall and RiseMitchell Zuckoff17h 23m4.6 (9.8K)$40 · $0.00
The SurvivorJosef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin9h 22m4.6 (2.5K)$29 · $0.00
Always FaithfulThomas Schueman, Zainullah Zaki12h 12m4.6 (977)$29 · $0.00
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 (Annotated)Alexis de Tocqueville17h 25m4.6 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
All the Gallant MenDonald Stratton, Ken Gire5h 55m4.6 (11.8K)$24 · $0.00
Medgar and MyrlieJoy-Ann Reid10h 52m4.5 (27.8K)$29 · $0.00
The History of the Peloponnesian War (Annotated)Thucydides24h 3m4.6 (1.1K)$2 · $0.00
You may also like
Girls Resist!KaeLyn Rich5h 48m4.3 (423)$20
Bearing the CrossDavid J. Garrow34h 22m4.3 (2.5K)$28
Finish the Fight!Veronica Chambers, The Staff of The New York Times2h 53m4.4 (939)$18 · $0.00
Anarchism and Other EssaysEmma Goldman7h 48m4.2 (9.2K)$3
Reclaiming Her TimeHelena Andrews-Dyer, R. Eric Thomas7h 9m4.2 (511)$24 · $0.00
Sisters in LawLinda Hirshman13h 29m4.0 (7.9K)$33 · $0.00
The Voice That Challenged a NationRussell Freedman2h 5m4.3 (2.6K)$16 · $0.00
By the Light of Burning DreamsDavid Talbot, Margaret Talbot13h 57m4.3 (269)$33 · $0.00
My Own StoryEmmeline Pankhurst13h 15m4.2 (3.7K)$1 · $0.00
The Three Documents That Made AmericaSam Fink1h 30m4.3 (311)$10
When Kids Can't Read—What Teachers Can DoKylene Beers12h 31m4.4 (2.7K)$25
RFKRobert F. Kennedy, C. Richard Allen, Edwin O. Guthman14h 7m4.5 (363)$33 · $0.00
My Own StoryEmmeline Pankhurst10h 29m4.4 (2.6K)$20
Forging U.S. DemocracyU.S. Government, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Congress45h 36m$1 · $0.00
Pioneering the VoteNeylan McBaine9h 8m4.2 (244)$20
The Women of the Suffrage Movement (Annotated)Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Addams, Ida Husted Harper, Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Howard Shaw, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Alice Stone Blackwell408h 55m$2 · $0.00
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Complete Illustrated Edition – Volumes 1&2) (Annotated)Ida Husted Harper46h 47m4.6 (115)$2 · $0.00
Victory for the VoteDoris Weatherford13h 28m4.3 (59)$23
Lincoln, the PoliticianT. Aaron Levy5h 48m$2 · $0.00
The Most Influential Women in History: Over 100 Memoirs & BiographiesElizabeth Cady Stanton, Julia Ward Howe, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mother Jones, Helen Wright, Margaret Sanger, Helen Keller, Catherine H. Birney, Sarah H. Bradford199h 25m4.3 (12)$1.99 · $0.00