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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Gerret Hendricks, Derick op de Graeff, Francis Daniell Pastorius, and Abraham op den Graef
Resolution of Germantown Mennonites
George Keith
An Exhortation & Caution to Friends Concerning Buying or Keeping of Negroes
Samuel Sewall
The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial
John Hepburn
from The American Defence of the Christian Golden Rule, or an Essay to Prove the Unlawfulness of Making Slaves of Men
Elihu Coleman
from A Testimony against the Anti-Christian Practice of Making Slaves of Men
Benjamin Lay
from All Slave-Keepers that Keep the Innocent in Bondage
John Woolman
from The Journal, 1755; 1758
Anthony Benezet
from Observations on the Inslaving, Importing and Purchasing of Negroes
Arthur Lee
Letter to the Virginia Gazette, March 19, 1767
Benjamin Franklin
A Conversation on Slavery
John Trumbull
The Correspondent, No. 8
Jane Dunlap
The Ethiopians shall Stretch out their hands to God, or a call to the Ethiopians
David Cooper
from A Mite Cast into the Treasury; or, Observations on Slave-Keeping
Patrick Henry
Letter to John Alsop, January 13, 1773
Phillis Wheatley
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c.
Letter to the Rev. Samson Occom, February 11, 1774
Elhanan Winchester
from The Reigning Abominations, Especially the Slave Trade, Considered as Causes of Lamentation
Thomas Paine
Letter to the Pennsylvania Journal, March 8, 1775
Lemuel Haynes
from Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-Keeping
Samuel Hopkins
from A Dialogue, Concerning the Slavery of the Africans
Joel Barlow
from The Prospect of Peace
from The Columbiad
Anthony Benezet
Observations on Slavery
from Short Observations on Slavery
Jupiter Hammon
from A Dialogue, intitled, The Kind Master and the Dutiful Servant 89
Anonymous
Shandyism
George Washington
Letter to Robert Morris, April 12, 1786
from Last Will and Testament
Benjamin Rush
The Paradise of Negro-Slaves--a dream
Anonymous
Essay on Negro Slavery, No. I
Theodore Dwight
"Help! oh, help! thou GOD of Christians!"
Prince Hall
The Petition of a Great Number of Blacks, Freemen of this Commonwealth
Susanna Rowson
from The Inquisitor; or, Invisible Rambler
Olaudah Equiano
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself
Benjamin Franklin
Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim on the Slave Trade
Joseph Sansom
from A Poetical Epistle to the Enslaved Africans, in the Character of an Ancient Negro, Born a Slave in Pennsylvania
Benjamin Banneker
from Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the Secretary of State
Jonathan Edwards
from The Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave Trade, and of the Slavery of the Africans
Ezra Stiles et al.
The Petition and Address of the Connecticut Society, for the promotion of Freedom
Robert Pleasants et al.
The Memorial of the Virginia Society, for promoting the Abolition of Slavery
Anonymous
The Wretched Taillah: An African Story
Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton
The African Chief
Noah Webster
from Effects of Slavery on Morals and Industry
Timothy Dwight
from Greenfield Hill
from Triumph of Democracy
from The Charitable Blessed
Philip Freneau
On the Migration to America, and Peopling the Western Country
Virginia: A Fragment
David Humphreys
from A Poem on Industry Addressed to the Citizens of the United States of America
from A Valedictory Discourse
Charles Pinckney Sumner
from The Compass
Anonymous
from Reflections on the Slavery of the Negroes, Addressed to the Conscience of Every American Citizen
St. George Tucker
from A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of It, in the State of Virginia
Anonymous
from The American in Algiers, or the Patriot of Seventy-Six in Captivity
Boston King
from Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher
Anonymous
The African Slave ["Ye Sons of Columbia"]
Thomas Branagan
from The Penitential Tyrant; or, Slave Trader Reformed
Isabella Oliver
On Slavery
Absalom Jones
from A Thanksgiving Sermon
Anonymous
The African Slave ["Shall the muse that's wont to wander"]
Peter Williams Jr.
Hymn I
Boyrereau Brinch
from The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-Named Jeffrey Brace
William Hamilton
Hymn II
Adam Carman
from An Oration Delivered at the Fourth Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Peter Clemmons Sr.
from Poor Peter's Call to His Children, and to All Others Who Can Hear and Believe
James Forten
from Letters from a Man of Colour on a Late Bill Before the Senate of Pennsylvania
George Bourne
from The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable
Prince Saunders
from A Memoir Presented to the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and Improving the Condition of the African Race
John Jay
Letter to Elias Boudinot, Esq., November 17, 1819
Rufus King
from Observations of Rufus King, on the Missouri Bill
Anonymous
The Christian Slave
Jeremiah Gloucester
from An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Ann Evans
from Africa
William Cullen Bryant
The African Chief
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler
The Slave-Ship
The Enfranchisement
Tea-Table Talk
Think of Our Country's Glory
Lydia Sigourney
To the First Slave Ship
Slavery: Written for the Celebration of the Fourth of July
George Moses Horton
On Liberty and Slavery
The Slave's Complaint
Robert Voorhis
from Life and Adventures of Robert Voorhis, the Hermit of Massachusetts
David Walker
from Walker's Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World
Anonymous
The African Woman
William Lloyd Garrison
To the Public
Universal Emancipation
Truisms
Song of the Abolitionist
John Greenleaf Whittier
To William Lloyd Garrison
The Hunters of Men
The Yankee Girl
Clerical Oppressors
The Slave Ships
The Branded Hand
Anonymous
A Dream
Another Dream
Anonymous
The Family Circle--No. 8
Lydia Maria Francis Child
Jumbo and Zairee
Slavery's Pleasant Homes
William Ellery Channing
from Slavery
Charles Ball
from Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, A Black Man
James Gillespie Birney
To the Slaveholders of the South
from The Sinfulness of Slaveholding in All Circumstances; Tested by Reason and Scripture
James Forten
from An Address Delivered before the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia
Sarah Moore Grimké
from An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States
Narrative and Testimony of Sarah M. Grimké
Angelina Emily Grimké
from An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States
John Pierpont
A Word from a Petitioner, to Congress
The Tocsin
Plymouth Rock
'I Would Not Live Always'
Moses Roper
from A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery
James Williams
from Narrative of James Williams: An American Slave: Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama
Edmund Quincy
Mother Cœlia
Gerrit Smith
from Letter of Gerrit Smith to Hon. Henry Clay
Theodore Dwight Weld
from American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
Maria Weston Chapman
Pinda:--A True Tale
Harriet Winslow
The Lonely Hearted
John Quincy Adams
from Argument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of the United States, appellants, vs. Cinque, and Others, Africans, Captured in the Schooner Amistad
Daniel Henshaw
Dialogue on Slavery
Lunsford Lane
from The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Slave's Dream
The Slave in the Dismal Swamp
The Slave Singing at Midnight
The Quadroon Girl
The Witnesses
John Neal
Duty and Safety of Emancipation
M. L. Gardner
Arouse, New-England's Sons
Henry Highland Garnet
An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
Jairus Lincoln
Hymn 17
Anonymous
Am I not a Sister?
Margaret Lucy Shands Bailey
The Blind Slave Boy
George W. Clark
March to the Battlefield
Eliza Lee Follen
The Slave Boy's Wish
Pic-nic at Dedham
Elizur Wright Jr.
The Fugitive Slave to the Christian
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anniversary of West Indian Emancipation
James Russell Lowell
A Rallying Cry for New-England, Against the Annexation of Texas
Lewis Garrard Clarke
from Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke
Hannah Townsend and Mary Townsend
The Anti-Slavery Alphabet
Henry Ward Beecher
from A Discourse Delivered at the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N.Y. upon Thanksgiving Day
William Wells Brown
from A Lecture Delivered before the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem
from Narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave. Written by himself
The American Slave-Trade
from Clotel; or, the President's Daughter
from The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom
Caroline W. Healey Dall
A Sketch from Maryland Life
Joseph Evans Snodgrass
The Childless Mother
Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock Jones
from The Young Abolitionists; or, Conversations on Slavery
Henry Bibb
from The Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself
Henry "Box" Brown
from Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself
Josiah Henson
from The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada
Lucretia Mott
from A Sermon to the Medical Students
James Russell Lowell
Compromise
Horace Mann
from Speech of Horace Mann of Massachusetts, on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories, and the Consequences of a Dissolution of the Union
from Speech on the Fugitive Slave Law
Sojourner Truth
from The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828
William Lloyd Garrison
from The Great Apostate
J. M. Eells
Impromptu Stanzas, Suggested by the Working of the Fugitive Slave Act, as Illustrated in the Case of Rev. Doctor Pennington
Harriet Beecher Stowe
from Uncle Tom's Cabin
Caste and Christ
The Sale of Little Harry
Eliza Crossing the River
Legree Striking Tom
The Two Altars; or, Two Pictures in One
George L. Aiken
from Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly, A Domestic Drama
Frederick Douglass
What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?
from The Heroic Slave
Wendell Phillips
from Speech of Wendell Phillips at the Melodeon
Mary B. Harlan
from Ellen, or The Chained Mother
Solomon Northup
from Twelve Years a Slave, Narrative of Solomon Northup
Annie Parker
Passages in the Life of a Slave Woman
John Pierpont
Ode
William H. Seward
Be Up and Doing
Horace Greeley
The Domestic Slave Trade
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
from Massachusetts in Mourning
Abraham Lincoln
from Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois
Mary Hayden Green Pike
from Ida May: A Story of Things Actual and Possible
Henry David Thoreau
Slavery in Massachusetts
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lecture on Slavery
Herman Melville
from Benito Cereno
James McCune Smith
from Introduction to Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom
Lydia Adams
from The Refugee: Or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
Harry Thomas
from The Refugee: Or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
Harriet Tubman
from The Refugee: Or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
Martha Griffith Browne
from Autobiography of a Female Slave
Thomas Mayne Reid
from The Quadroon; or, A Lover's Adventures in Louisiana
Charles Sumner
from The Crime Against Kansas
John T. Trowbridge
from Neighbor Jackwood
Harriet Hamline Bigelow
from The Curse Entailed
Austin Steward
from Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman
Anonymous
Lucy; or, The Slave Girl of Kentucky
Jermain Wesley Loguen
from The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life
John Brown
Speech to the Court
Letter to Mrs. George L. Stearns, November 29, 1859
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Louisa May Alcott
With A Rose, That bloomed on the day of John Brown's martyrdom
An Hour
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Slave's Appeal
Charles Sumner
from The Barbarism of Slavery
Walt Whitman
Mannahatta
Julia Ward Howe
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Harriet Ann Jacobs
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Martin R. Delany
from Blake: or the Huts of America
Horace Greeley
The Prayer of Twenty Millions
Abraham Lincoln
The Emancipation Proclamation
Lucretia Mott
No Greater Joy Than to See These Children Walking in the Anti-Slavery Path
Emily Dickinson
"Color--Caste--Denomination"
John T. Trowbridge
from Cudjo's Cave
John Greenleaf Whittier
Laus Deo
Henry Highland Garnet
from A Memorial Discourse
Abraham Lincoln
Second Inaugural Address
William Cullen Bryant
The Death of Lincoln
Charles Sumner
from Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln
Lyman Trumbull et al.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Chronology
Illustrations
Note on the Illustrations
Note on the Texts
Notes
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