Why did Herman Melville go to jail?
Hmm mm mm – – – Herman Melville had a brief adventuresome time as a youth and then spent the rest of his life in ever increasing boredom. His one brief time of imprisionment occurred during his South Sea Adventures when he was part of a Mutiny aboard the ship the ‘Lucy Ann’ and by stuatus of being a mutiner was briefly imprisoned before escaping. And he was briefly ‘jailed’ by the Typee Natives but that was more of a ‘can’t go’ type jailing not an actual jail by American Standards – – – and in that instance mainly because Melville was ‘a foreigner’ in their midst…. If you hear about a Melville being Jailed you might be thinking of an Australian hero whose exploits as a jailed person were the stuff of legend… This link speaks of Herman Melvilles breif imprisonment… http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pa… “””Once on the Lucy Ann, Melville experienced worse conditions and mutinied again with
