How does Moby Dick treat it's black characters

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>>8497054
>it's

>>8497054
He's not exactly "black" but Queequeg was a fairly fleshed out character in my perspective and I don't think he could be called a caricature by 19th century standards

Ishmael is written to be a little prick. I've always thought his uncomfortable way of dealing with Queequeg as a parody of a 'tolerant' and 'modern' man of the Enlightment.

Could be off base, I've only read it once.

>>8497065
Pip was black as well

>>8497069
way off base. tolerance is an big anachronism, it would never have been used in those terms until recently

>>8497086
But when Ishmael is narrating, he's specifically discussing accepting people regardless of creed because all religion extends from the same God.

Tolerance of foreign cultures, if only to open new avenues for personal profit, has been discussed as a positive attribute since the beginning of the Enlightenment.

Black or minorities are the 4th 5th and 6th most important dudes on the boat, lording it over the cook and the cucks who have to wait on them.
If anything Melville choked on BLACKDICK whenever he wasnt biting the pillow and getting reamed by HAWTHORNE.

>>8497213
Wasn't Melville captured by cannibals at some point in his life? He was quite probably raped at some point by niggers.

Melville seems to be a fairly liberal person. He treats other cultures and nations with respect, it is quite obvious from some passages.

>muh noble savage

Yep, it's racist.

>>8497054
If a white man wrote it,then it's racist

>>8497462
>>8497648
But the antagonist is white

>>8497462
how is the noble savage trope racist

if anything doesn't it praise the natives of being more noble than the white man that is corrupted by industry?

>racist
could you fucking stop being a little bitch? the book is set in the 19th century people back then were all racists compared to what we are used to today, if the book would be re-written today, everyone would be black, quee queg would be white, and moby dick would be the great black whale.

>>8497659
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>>8497659
I chuckled

>>8497086
You know what he meant. All ideas exist despite time, it's a matter of vocabulary. Tolerance as a concept would surely have a cross-era translation.