Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
Gerret Hendricks, Derick op de Graeff, Francis Daniell
Pastorius, and Abraham op den Graef
Resolution of Germantown Mennonites . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
George Keith
An Exhortation & Caution to Friends Concerning .
Buying or Keeping of Negroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Samuel Sewall
The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
John Hepburn
from The American Defence of the Christian Golden
Rule, or an Essay to Prove the Unlawfulness of .
Making Slaves of Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Elihu Coleman
from A Testimony against the Anti-Christian Practice
of Making Slaves of Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Benjamin Lay
from All Slave-Keepers that Keep the Innocent in Bondage 23
John Woolman
from The Journal, 1755; 1758 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Anthony Benezet
from Observations on the Inslaving, Importing and
Purchasing of Negroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Arthur Lee
Letter to the Virginia Gazette, March 19, 1767 . . . . . . . 34
Benjamin Franklin
A Conversation on Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
xi
xii
con t en t s
John Trumbull
The Correspondent, No. 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Jane Dunlap
The Ethiopians shall Stretch out their hands to God, .
or a call to the Ethiopians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
David Cooper
from A Mite Cast into the Treasury; or, Observations
on Slave-Keeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Patrick Henry
Letter to John Alsop, January 13, 1773 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
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 . . 54
56
Elhanan Winchester
from The Reigning Abominations, Especially the
Slave Trade, Considered as Causes of Lamentation . . 57
Thomas Paine
Letter to the Pennsylvania Journal,
March 8, 1775 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Lemuel Haynes
from Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on
the Illegality of Slave-Keeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Samuel Hopkins
from A Dialogue, Concerning the Slavery of the Africans 69
Joel Barlow
from The Prospect of Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . from The Columbiad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
76
con t en t s
xiii
Anthony Benezet
Observations on Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . from Short Observations on Slavery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
85
Jupiter Hammon
from A Dialogue, intitled, The Kind Master and the
Dutiful Servant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
89
Anonymous
Shandyism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
George Washington
Letter to Robert Morris, April 12, 1786 . . . . . . . . . . . . . from Last Will and Testament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
97
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!” . . . . . . . . . . 111
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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con t en t s
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
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 . . . . . . . 151
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
con t en t s
xv
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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con t en t s
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
con t en t s
xvii
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
242
243
245
248
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
267
270
271
274
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
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
con t en t s
John Pierpont
A Word from a Petitioner, to Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Tocsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Plymouth Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
‘I Would Not Live Always’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
xix
354
358
361
362
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
xx
con t en t s
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
430
432
433
434
435
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
con t en t s
xxi
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 . . . . . . . . . . . 491
493
503
506
514
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
xxii
con t en t s
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
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 . . . . . . . . . . .
567
574
576
577
579
580
con t en t s
xxiii
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
con t en t s
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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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con t en t s
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889
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