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... and as colonial subjects’’ (5). Wyss finds the precursors to many of the themes and rhetorical strategies later used by William Apess, whom she discusses in her introduc- tion and epilogue. Apess, a Pequot who became a leader of the Mashpee as a minister, writer, and political activist, has been...