ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -William Apess (1798-1839) was the first Native American to write and publish his own autobiography, A Son in the Forest, and was the most prolific nineteenth century Indian writer in the English language.

Detailed explanation-2: -Born in 1798 in Colrain, MA, William Apess was a mixed-race man who began life as an indentured servant, served in the army during the War of 1812’s Quebec campaign, and became a traveling Methodist minister. He was also the author of the first published Native American autobiography, A Son of the Forest (1829).

Detailed explanation-3: -William Apess is credited as the first Native American to publish an extensive autobiography, A Son of the Forest (1829). In it, he writes that his father was a white man and his mother was the granddaughter of Metacom, or King Philip (instigator of King Philips War of 1676).

Detailed explanation-4: -This primary source is from Native American (Pequot) minister William Apess, an advocate for racial equality and the rights of Native Americans.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the heart of New England, on the doorstep of the Pilgrim founding fathers, William Apess delivered this eulogy honoring their greatest enemy, Metacomet of the Wampanoags, known as King Philip, who led a coalition of Native peoples that came close to destroying the whole English colonial enterprise in 1675–76.