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Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii Gerret Hendricks, Derick op de Graeff, Francis Daniell Pastorius, and Abraham op den Graef Resolution of Germantown Mennonites . . . . . . . . . . . .
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George Keith An Exhortation & Caution to Friends Concerning . Buying or Keeping of Negroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Samuel Sewall The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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John Hepburn from The American Defence of the Christian Golden Rule, or an Essay to Prove the Unlawfulness of . Making Slaves of Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Elihu Coleman from A Testimony against the Anti-Christian Practice of Making Slaves of Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Benjamin Lay from All Slave-Keepers that Keep the Innocent in Bondage
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John Woolman from The Journal, 1755; 1758 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Anthony Benezet from Observations on the Inslaving, Importing and Purchasing of Negroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Arthur Lee Letter to the Virginia Gazette, March 19, 1767 . . . . . . .
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Benjamin Franklin A Conversation on Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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John Trumbull The Correspondent, No. 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Jane Dunlap The Ethiopians shall Stretch out their hands to God, . or a call to the Ethiopians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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David Cooper from A Mite Cast into the Treasury; or, Observations on Slave-Keeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Patrick Henry Letter to John Alsop, January 13, 1773 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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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 . .
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Elhanan Winchester from The Reigning Abominations, Especially the Slave Trade, Considered as Causes of Lamentation . .
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Thomas Paine Letter to the Pennsylvania Journal, March 8, 1775 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Lemuel Haynes from Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-Keeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Samuel Hopkins from A Dialogue, Concerning the Slavery of the Africans
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Joel Barlow from The Prospect of Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . from The Columbiad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Anthony Benezet Observations on Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . from Short Observations on Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Jupiter Hammon from A Dialogue, intitled, The Kind Master and the Dutiful Servant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Anonymous Shandyism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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George Washington Letter to Robert Morris, April 12, 1786 . . . . . . . . . . . . . from Last Will and Testament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Benjamin Rush The Paradise of Negro-Slaves—a dream . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Anonymous Essay on Negro Slavery, No. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Theodore Dwight “Help! oh, help! thou God of Christians!” . . . . . . . . . .
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Prince Hall The Petition of a Great Number of Blacks, Freemen . of this Commonwealth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Susanna Rowson from The Inquisitor; or, Invisible Rambler . . . . . . . . . . 116 Olaudah Equiano from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written . by Himself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Benjamin Franklin Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim on the Slave Trade . . . . . . . . . . . 122
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Joseph Sansom from A Poetical Epistle to the Enslaved Africans, in the Character of an Ancient Negro, Born a Slave . in Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Benjamin Banneker from Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the Secretary of State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Jonathan Edwards from The Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave Trade, and of the Slavery of the Africans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Ezra Stiles et al. The Petition and Address of the Connecticut Society, . for the promotion of Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Robert Pleasants et al. The Memorial of the Virginia Society, for promoting . the Abolition of Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Anonymous The Wretched Taillah: An African Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton The African Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Noah Webster from Effects of Slavery on Morals and Industry . . . . . . .
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Timothy Dwight from Greenfield Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 from Triumph of Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 from The Charitable Blessed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Philip Freneau On the Migration to America, and Peopling the . Western Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Virginia: A Fragment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
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David Humphreys from A Poem on Industry Addressed to the Citizens of the United States of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 from A Valedictory Discourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Charles Pinckney Sumner from The Compass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Anonymous from Reflections on the Slavery of the Negroes, Addressed to the Conscience of Every American . Citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 St. George Tucker from A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of It, in the State of Virginia . . . . . 172 Anonymous from The American in Algiers, or the Patriot of Seventy-Six in Captivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Boston King from Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Anonymous The African Slave [“Ye Sons of Columbia”] . . . . . . . . . . 182 Thomas Branagan from The Penitential Tyrant; or, Slave Trader Reformed 184 Isabella Oliver On Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Absalom Jones from A Thanksgiving Sermon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Anonymous The African Slave [“Shall the muse that’s wont to . wander”] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
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Peter Williams Jr. Hymn I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Boyrereau Brinch from The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-Named Jeffrey Brace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 William Hamilton Hymn II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Adam Carman from An Oration Delivered at the Fourth Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Peter Clemmons Sr. from Poor Peter’s Call to His Children, and to All Others Who Can Hear and Believe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 James Forten from Letters from a Man of Colour on a Late Bill Before the Senate of Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 George Bourne from The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Prince Saunders from A Memoir Presented to the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and . Improving the Condition of the African Race . . . . . . 219 John Jay Letter to Elias Boudinot, Esq., November 17, 1819 . . . . 223 Rufus King from Observations of Rufus King, on the Missouri Bill . 225 Anonymous The Christian Slave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Jeremiah Gloucester from An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade . . 232
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Ann Evans from Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 William Cullen Bryant The African Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Elizabeth Margaret Chandler The Slave-Ship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Enfranchisement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tea-Table Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Think of Our Country’s Glory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Lydia Sigourney To the First Slave Ship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Slavery: Written for the Celebration of the Fourth of July 251 George Moses Horton On Liberty and Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 The Slave’s Complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Robert Voorhis from Life and Adventures of Robert Voorhis, the Hermit of Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 David Walker from Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World . . 262 Anonymous The African Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 William Lloyd Garrison To the Public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Universal Emancipation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Truisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Song of the Abolitionist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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John Greenleaf Whittier To William Lloyd Garrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 The Hunters of Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 The Yankee Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
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Clerical Oppressors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 The Slave Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 The Branded Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286 Anonymous A Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 Another Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 Anonymous The Family Circle—No. 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Lydia Maria Francis Child Jumbo and Zairee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 Slavery’s Pleasant Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 William Ellery Channing from Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 Charles Ball from Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, A Black Man . . . 325 James Gillespie Birney To the Slaveholders of the South . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 from The Sinfulness of Slaveholding in All Circumstances; Tested by Reason and Scripture . . . . . 330 James Forten from An Address Delivered before the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Sarah Moore Grimké from An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States . . . 336 Narrative and Testimony of Sarah M. Grimké . . . . . . . . 340 Angelina Emily Grimké from An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
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John Pierpont A Word from a Petitioner, to Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Tocsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Plymouth Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘I Would Not Live Always’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Moses Roper from A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 James Williams from Narrative of James Williams: An American Slave: Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton . Plantation in Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 Edmund Quincy Mother Cœlia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 Gerrit Smith from Letter of Gerrit Smith to Hon. Henry Clay . . . . . . 376 Theodore Dwight Weld from American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 Maria Weston Chapman Pinda:—A True Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 Harriet Winslow The Lonely Hearted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 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 . . . . . . . 403 Daniel Henshaw Dialogue on Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
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Lunsford Lane from The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Slave’s Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Slave in the Dismal Swamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Slave Singing at Midnight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Quadroon Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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John Neal Duty and Safety of Emancipation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437 M. L. Gardner Arouse, New-England’s Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 Henry Highland Garnet An Address to the Slaves of the United States of . America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 Jairus Lincoln Hymn 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452 Anonymous Am I not a Sister? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454 Margaret Lucy Shands Bailey The Blind Slave Boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455 George W. Clark March to the Battlefield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458 Eliza Lee Follen The Slave Boy’s Wish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 Pic-nic at Dedham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 Elizur Wright Jr. The Fugitive Slave to the Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Anniversary of West Indian Emancipation . . . . . . . . . . . 470 James Russell Lowell A Rallying Cry for New-England, Against the . Annexation of Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474 Lewis Garrard Clarke from Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477 Hannah Townsend and Mary Townsend The Anti-Slavery Alphabet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479 Henry Ward Beecher from A Discourse Delivered at the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N.Y. upon Thanksgiving Day . . . . . . . . . . 489 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 . . . . . . . . . . .
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Caroline W. Healey Dall A Sketch from Maryland Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516 Joseph Evans Snodgrass The Childless Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock Jones from The Young Abolitionists; or, Conversations on Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524 Henry Bibb from The Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself . . . . . . 527
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Henry “Box” Brown from Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532 Josiah Henson from The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538 Lucretia Mott from A Sermon to the Medical Students . . . . . . . . . . . . 543 James Russell Lowell Compromise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546 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 . . . . . . . 550 from Speech on the Fugitive Slave Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553 Sojourner Truth from The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the . State of New York, in 1828 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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William Lloyd Garrison from The Great Apostate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558 J. M. Eells Impromptu Stanzas, Suggested by the Working of . the Fugitive Slave Act, as Illustrated in the Case . of Rev. Doctor Pennington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564 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 . . . . . . . . . . .
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George L. Aiken from Uncle Tom’s Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly, A Domestic Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593 Frederick Douglass What to the Slave Is the 4th of July? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596 from The Heroic Slave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623 Wendell Phillips from Speech of Wendell Phillips at the Melodeon . . . . . 644 Mary B. Harlan from Ellen, or The Chained Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659 Solomon Northup from Twelve Years a Slave, Narrative of Solomon Northup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662 Annie Parker Passages in the Life of a Slave Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666 John Pierpont Ode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672 William H. Seward Be Up and Doing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675 Horace Greeley The Domestic Slave Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677 Thomas Wentworth Higginson from Massachusetts in Mourning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682 Abraham Lincoln from Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687 Mary Hayden Green Pike from Ida May: A Story of Things Actual and Possible . . 691
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Henry David Thoreau Slavery in Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694 Ralph Waldo Emerson Lecture on Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709 Herman Melville from Benito Cereno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725 James McCune Smith from Introduction to Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734 Lydia Adams from The Refugee: Or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740 Harry Thomas from The Refugee: Or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741 Harriet Tubman from The Refugee: Or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745 Martha Griffith Browne from Autobiography of a Female Slave . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746 Thomas Mayne Reid from The Quadroon; or, A Lover’s Adventures in Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750 Charles Sumner from The Crime Against Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753 John T. Trowbridge from Neighbor Jackwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762 Harriet Hamline Bigelow from The Curse Entailed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772
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Austin Steward from Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775 Anonymous Lucy; or, The Slave Girl of Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778 Jermain Wesley Loguen from The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788 John Brown Speech to the Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792 Letter to Mrs. George L. Stearns, November 29, 1859 . . 794 Ralph Waldo Emerson Speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795 Louisa May Alcott With A Rose, That bloomed on the day of John . Brown’s martyrdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798 An Hour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800 Elizabeth Cady Stanton The Slave’s Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825 Charles Sumner from The Barbarism of Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830 Walt Whitman Mannahatta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835 Julia Ward Howe The Battle Hymn of the Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837 Harriet Ann Jacobs from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . 839 Martin R. Delany from Blake: or the Huts of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846
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Horace Greeley The Prayer of Twenty Millions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853 Abraham Lincoln The Emancipation Proclamation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859 Lucretia Mott No Greater Joy Than to See These Children Walking . in the Anti-Slavery Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862 Emily Dickinson “Color—Caste—Denomination” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866 John T. Trowbridge from Cudjo’s Cave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867 John Greenleaf Whittier Laus Deo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874 Henry Highland Garnet from A Memorial Discourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877 Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880 William Cullen Bryant The Death of Lincoln . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882 Charles Sumner from Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883 Lyman Trumbull et al. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution . . 886 Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Note on the Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Note on the Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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