Abstract
In Benito Cereno, Melville indicts Northern moderates who thought that civil relations between Northern and Southern whites could bind together a splintering nation. Mocking the notion of benevolent white authority, he explores the danger—and the impossibility—of omitting black men and women from meaningful conceptions of sociality.
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