James McCune Smith on Horace Greeley as Stubb, quoting from MOBY-DICK? or a frequently reprinted newspaper excerpt from chapter 61, "Stubb Kills a Whale"

 

James McCune Smith the great American physician, author and "intellectual extraordinaire" (as Amy M. Cools well says) quoted from Moby-Dick chapter 61 "Stubb Kills a Whale" in a letter signed "Communipaw" and published under the heading "Horoscope" in Frederick Douglass' Paper on… pic.twitter.com/gJsU60wTnu

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