African American Heritage Anthology #2 by Booker T. Washington -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

My Larger Education

Learning From Men and Things Building A School Around A Problem Some Exceptional Men And What I Have Learned From Them My Experience With Reporters And Newspapers The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob A Commencement Oration on Cabbages Colonel Roosevelt and What I Have Learned From Him My Educational Campaigns Through the South and What They Taught Me What I Have Learned From Black Men Meeting High and Low in Europe What I Learned About Education in Denmark The Mistakes and The Future of Negro Education

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Her Birth and Parentage Accommodations Her Brothers and Sisters Her Religious Instruction The Auction Death of Mau-mau Bett Last Days of Bomefree Death of Bomefree Commencement of Isabella’s Trials in Life Trials Continued Her Standing with Her New Master and Mistress Isabella’s Marriage Isabella as a Mother Slaveholder’s Promises Her Escape Illegal Sale of Her Son It Is Often Darkest Just Before Dawn Death of Mrs. Eliza Fowler Isabella’s Religious Experience New Trials Finding a Brother and Sister Gleanings The Matthias Delusion Fasting The Cause of Her Leaving the City The Consequences of Refusing a Traveller a Night’s Lodging Some of Her Views and Reasonings The Second Advent Doctrines Another Camp Meeting Her Last Interview with Her Master Certificates of Character

Character Building

Two Sides Of Life Helping Others Some Rocks Ahead On Influencing By Example The Virtue Of Simplicity Have You Done Your Best? Don’t Be Discouraged On Getting A Home Calling Things By Their Right Name European Impressions The Value Of System In Home Life What Will Pay Education That Educates The Importance of Being Reliable The Highest Education Unimproved Opportunities Keeping Your Word Some Lessons Of The Hour The Gospel Of Service Your Part In The Negro Conference What Is To Be Our Future? Some Great Little Things To Would-Be Teachers The Cultivation Of Stable Habits What You Ought To Do Individual Responsibility Getting On In The World Each One His Part What Would Father And Mother Say? Object Lessons Substance VS. Shadow Character As Shown In Dress Sing The Old Songs Getting Down To Mother Earth A Penny Saved Growth Last Words

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Introduction First Part

Author’s Birth Removal from Grandmother’s Troubles of Childhood A General Survey of the Slave Plantation A Slaveholder’s Character A Child’s Reasoning Luxuries at the Great House Characteristics of Overseers Change of Location Learning to Read Growing in Knowledge Religious Nature Awakened The Vicissitudes Of Slave Life Experience in St. Michael’s Covey, the Negro Breaker Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice The Last Flogging New Relations and Duties The Runaway Plot Apprenticeship Life Escape from Slavery

Second Part

Escape from Slavery Life as a Freeman Introduced to the Abolitionists Recollections of Old Friends One Hundred Conventions Impressions Abroad Triumphs and Trials John Brown and Mrs. Stowe Increasing Demands of the Slave Power The Beginning of the End Secession and War Hope for the Nation Vast Changes Living and Learning Weighed in the Balance Time Makes All Things Even Incidents and Events Honor to Whom Honor Retrospection Conclusion

Appendix

Unveiling of the Freedmen’s Monument West India Emancipation

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X

Miscellaneous Verses,

Chapter XI Chapter XII

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Preface Letter from Wendell Phillips, Esq. Frederick Douglass Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Appendix A Parody

Quicksand

One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty Twenty-One Twenty-Two Twenty-Three Twenty-Four Twenty-Five

The Heroic Slave

Part I Part II Part III Part IV

The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave

Preface The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Supplement to the History of Mary Prince Narrative of Louis Asa-Asa, a Captured African

The Negro Boy’s Narrative

The Souls of Black Folk

The Forethought Of Our Spiritual Strivings Of the Dawn of Freedom Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others Of the Meaning of Progress Of the Wings of Atalanta Of the Training of Black Men Of the Black Belt Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece Of the Sons of Master and Man Of the Faith of the Fathers Of the Passing of the First-Born Of Alexander Crummell Of the Coming of John Of the Sorrow Songs The Afterthought

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