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Looking-Glass for the White Man  Almost forgotten until the late
1970s, the writing of William ApessApess" has become standard
although the name is also sometimes spelled "Apes" Pequot,
exists today in a volume of complete works and in a growing body
of critical work. His extraordinary essay "An Indian's Looking-
Glass for the White Man" (1833) is a powerful indictment of what
Apess called color prejudice and what would today be called
racism.  William Apess was born in 1798 in the small town of
Colrain, Massachusetts, some distance from North Stonington and
Ledyard, Connecticut, where his people, the Pequots, mostly
resided on two small reservations. Early in his life his parents
moved back to Connecticut and unfortunately...  History: Why Was
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