...Paul Nadal Abstract This essay recovers a once celebrated but now forgotten Filipino novel in English, Juan Cabreros Laya’s His Native Soil ( 1941 ), which marked the emergence of realism during the Philippine Commonwealth’s slow, decade-long transition to independence from the United States...

...Lance Newman In the 1850s, Frederick Douglass set out to nurture emergent antislavery commitments within the most advanced political milieu of the antebellum decade, the Free Soil movement. Douglass developed a protoenvironmentalist critique of capitalism's alienation of workers from the land...

...Cristin Ellis Ellis’s essay reconstructs the history of environmental crisis—the crisis of Southern soil exhaustion—at the heart of the antebellum slavery debates. Through readings of landscape in My Bondage and My Freedom , the essay argues that in the 1850s, Douglass displaces the moral...

... at the Haudenosaunee Great Law we see the idea that upon death the deceased and soil “will mingle again, the body becoming soil again” (Gibson 1992 : 532). Moreover, as Fidelia Fielding explains, Mohegan peoples “shall always remain in [the land] where your [Creator] is” (Fawcett 1995 : 44). If Occom is unable...

... the South lagged behind Northern agri- culture. Describing the natural “quality and variety” of his own soil, Helper (1857, 133) points to slavery as the reason why Southern states as a whole were not more successful at agricultural enterprises on the national market. The land was inherently rich, he...

... Americans as a legitimate, if legally unbinding, deed. Accordingly, Dunbar provides a rubric for remembering that identifies the undeniable relationships among southern soil, slavery, and freedom, effectively asking the questions: When a formerly enslaved person weeps at the site of a ruined plantation...

... which she had struck into the soil” (56). I suggest we take him literally. His words echo those in the “Introduc- tory,” when he confesses guilt about “the deep and aged roots which my family has struck into the soil” (8). Perhaps, after all, the “sin” with which Hawthorne is most preoccupied...

... to dominate anxious social and cultural dis- cussions during the nineteenth century: he is native-born on what is “American” soil. Young Effingham is, at the end of the novel, comfort- ably incorporated into property ownership as an American who has survived displacement by Republican upstarts. He...

... might the city look like if one pays attention to multispecies inhabitants, or to physical dirt itself? This latter question resonates with questions being asked by scientists of the Anthropocene like Daniel Richter ( 2007 ), who study significant changes happening in Earth’s soils, including soils...

... interred within its domain for “her dust would help to compose . . . this land” (207, 211). Entitled “The Funeral,” the final chapter juxtaposes the vastness of the ocean against the containment of Black opportunity and aspiration on US soil. In it, Herndon bids the United States “an eternal farewell...

... the picking season, Petra and Estrella enact a ritual of constructing place: Aquí? Estrella asked, staking the soil right in front of the porch and the mother nodded and Estrella guided the stick and began the demarcation around the house while the mother sang softly. She...

... figure with the French “absent agronomist” (9)—the Enlightenment theorist of a new agricultural and economic science who reaped the profits of stolen land and enslaved labor and whose plantation flourished in the soil of colonial Saint-Domingue. 4 Though Makandal was not present at the later events...

... . Morgan Edmund S. 1975 . American Slavery, American Freedom . New York : Norton . Nabers Deak . 2006 . Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, The Civil War, and American Literature, 1852-1867 . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . Newman Lance . 2009 . “ Free Soil...

... was strictly local, narrowly geographical in her feelings and opinions. She was colored by the soil in which she had germinated and been nurtured . . . .”12 Place and Patriotism in De Forest  559 While Miss Ravenel’s father, a Southern Unionist, familiarizes himself...

... narratives drew on visual imagery to depict the limits of unmediated representation. Frederick Douglass’s use of genre as a technology is the subject of Lance Newman’s “Free Soil and the Abolitionist Forests of Frederick Douglass’s ‘The Heroic Slave While forests in the 1845 Narrative represent...

... and boarded a boat headed to New Bedford, Massachu- setts. His sister Harriet Jacobs would remain confined in their grand- mother’s suffocating crawlspace for another four years until, certain of her children’s safety, she too risked escape. Although reunited with kin on Northern soil, Harriet lived...

... of labor and of the soil is felt simultaneously. He is lost in the mechanical echelon of plows, but those plows themselves are inseparable from the earth (and the Earth) that has been made to rely on them in its natural cycle of reproduction—the Earth that is itself, as in the eyes of Annie Derrick...

... even as these were becoming outmoded in a commercial society. Moreover, in thinking of female labor as needy of male control, they also unintentionally provided a way for the industrial corporation to domesticate itself on US soil by first domesticating the female wage laborer. 2 Authors’ gendered...

.... Near him two chil- dren dropped the peelings of oranges and bananas on the already soiled floor. The smell of stale food and ancient tobacco irritated Helga like a physical pain. A man, a white man, strode through the packed car and spat twice, once in the exact center of the dingy...

... “the soil of my future growth,” to his final journal entry before he died, in which he stays on the surface altogether, minutely describing the surface of a railway causeway after a storm. American Literature, Volume 85, Number 1, March 2013 DOI 10.1215/00029831-1959517  © 2013 by Duke University...