- Appendix A: The Art of the Short Story and the Romance
- 1. Herman Melville, "Hawthorne and his Mosses" (1850)
- 2. Edgar Allan Poe, Rev. of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales, Graham's, 1842
- 3. Rev. of The Piazza Tales in United States Democratic Review, September 1856
- 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
- Appendix B: Race, Slavery and Inequality
- 1. Amasa Delano, Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Comprising Three Voyages Round the World, Together With a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands (1817)
- 2. Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1852)
- 3. George Lippard, New York, Its Upper Ten and Lower Million (1854)
- 4. John Quincy Adams, The United States v. The Amistad (1841)
- 5. The slave deck of the bark ""Wildfire,"" brought into Key West on April 30, 1860
- Appendix C: Allusions to Poetry and the Bible
- 1. "Mariana," by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1830)
- 2. Matthew 5:38-48, The Bible, King James Version
- 3. Job 3:1-26, The Bible, King James Version
- 4. Judges 4:4-22, The Bible, King James Version
- Appendix D: Science and Philosophy
- 1. Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. From 1832 to 1836 [October 1835] (1840)
- 2. Jonathan Edwards, Freedom of the Will (1754), Section V, Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency
- 3. Joseph Priestley, The Doctrine of Philosophic Necessity Illustrated (1777)
