From bondage to liberation : writings by and about Afro-Americans from 1700 to 1918 / edited and narrated by Faith Berry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berry, Faith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Literary collections.

African Americans.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

African Americans--History.

History.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

487 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2001.

Summary:

Presenting a literary and cultural dialogue across the racial divide, this thought-provoking anthology of more than 125 works offers a unique, integrated panorama of significant American writers, including Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Abraham Lincoln, Jesse Jackson, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin.

Contents:

Part 1 From Slavery to the Civil War

/ Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) 23

From The Selling of Joseph (1700) 24

/ John Woolman (1720-72) 26

From Some Considerations on the Keeping Negroes: Part Second (1762) 27

/ Thomas Paine (1737-1809) 30

"African Slavery in America" (1775) 31

/ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 35

From Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) 39

Letter to Marquis de Chastellux (1785) 43

/ Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) 45

A Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791) 46

/ Jupiter Hammon (1711-ca. 1806?) 50

An Address to the Negroes in The State of New York (1787) 51

/ Olaudah Equiano [Gustavus Vassa] (ca. 1745-ca. 1797) 60

From The Interesting Narrative of the Life ... (1789) 61

/ Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) 69

An Address to the Public: ... for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes ... (1789) 70

/ Absalom Jones (1746-1818) 72

From A Thanksgiving Sermon on Abolition of the Slave Trade (1808) 73

/ Samuel E. Cornish (1795-1858), John B. Russwurm (1799-1851) 77

"To Our Patrons"

Opening Editorial of Freedom's Journal (1827) 79

/ James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) 83

"On Slavery" (1838) 84

"On American Slavery" (1838) 85

/ David Walker (1785-1830) 87

From Article IV of David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles (1829-30) 88

/ William Lloyd Garrison (1805-79) 92

"To the Public"

the Liberator's First Editorial (1831) 94

/ Maria W. Stewart (1803-79) 96

From Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality ... (1831) 98

/ Nat Turner (1800-1831) 102

From The Confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Va. (1831) 103

/ Frances Milton Trollope (1780-1863) 108

From Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) 109

/ John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) 111

From Swallow Barn; or, A Sojourn in the Old Dominion (1832) 112

/ Lydia Maria Francis Child (1802-80) 119

From An Appeal in Favor of Americans Called Africans (1833) 120

/ John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92) 122

From Justice and Expediency ... (1833) 123

/ Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) 127

From Democracy in America (1835) 128

/ James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860) 130

From Slavery in the United States (1836) 131

/ Angelina Grimke (1805-79) 134

From Appeal to the Christian Women of the Southern States (1836) 135

/ Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-95) 137

From American Slavery as It Is (1839) 139

/ Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806-82) 141

A Letter to Brother Garrison [w/ Grace Douglass] (1839) 142

/ William Whipper (1804?-76) 144

On "Colorophobia"

from a Letter in the Colored American (1841) 145

/ Henry Highland Garnet (1815-82) 146

"An Address to the Slaves of the United States" (1843) 148

/ Frederick Douglass (1818?-95) 155

"The Rights of Women" (1848) 158

/ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96) 160

From Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: "Poor White Trash" (1853) 162

/ George Fitzhugh (1806-81) 166

From Sociology of the South (1854) 167

/ William Gilmore Simms (1806-70) 169

From Woodcraft; or, Hawks about the Dovecote ... (1854) 170

/ Martin Robison Delany (1812-85) 173

From The Political Destiny of the Colored Race (1854) 175

/ William Wells Brown (ca. 1816-84) 179

From Sketches of Places and People Abroad: The American Fugitive in Europe (1854) 181

/ William Cooper Nell (ca. 1814-74) 185

From The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution (1855) 186

/ Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864) 190

From Dred Scott Decision: Opinion of the Court (1857) 192

/ Walt Whitman (1819-92) 200

Slavery (1857) 202

/ Josiah Henson (1789-1883) 204

From Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (1858) 206

/ John Brown (1800-1859) 208

Last Speech to the Virginia Court (November 2, 1859) 210

/ Charles Howard Langston (1817-92) 212

A Black Abolitionist in Defense of John Brown (November 18, 1859) 213

/ Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) 217

From A Plea for John Brown (1859) 219

/ Sarah Parker Remond (1826-1894) 223

An Exchange of Letters on American Citizenship (1859) 224

/ Robert Purvis (1810-98) 227

From Your Government

It Is Not Mine (1860) 228

/ Ellen Craft (ca. 1826-97), William Craft (1827-1900) 232

From Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860) 234

/ Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) 237

From The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (1861) 238

/ Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-86) 241

From A Diary from Dixie (1861) 243

/ Harriet Jacobs [Linda Brent] (1813-97) 247

From Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl ... (1861) 249

/ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) 252

From Chiefly about War Matters (1862) 254

/ Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) 255

Address on Colonization ... (1862) 258

Meditation on the Divine Will (1862) 262

/ Isabella Van Wagenen [Sojourner Truth] (1797-1883) 263

Letter after a Visit to President Lincoln (1864) 266

/ Charlotte L. Forten Grimke (1837-1914) 268

From The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten (1863) 270

/ Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) 272

From Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870) 274

Part 2 From Radical Reconstruction to the Dawn of the Harlem Renaissance

/ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) 281

From Speech to Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention (1866) 283

/ Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) 286

The Old Plantation (1877) 288

/ Alexander Crummell (1819-98) 291

From The Black Woman of the South: Her Neglects and Her Needs (1883) 293

/ T. Thomas Fortune (1856-1928) 294

From Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South (1884) 297

/ Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) 302

From An Appeal to Caesar (1884) 305

/ George Washington Cable (1844-1925) 308

From The Freedman's Case in Equity (1885) 311

/ Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) 316

The South as an Opening for a Career (1888) 319

/ James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) 324

Best Methods of Removing the Disabilities of Caste from the Negro (1892) 327

/ William Dean Howells (1837-1920) 331

From An Imperative Duty (1892) 334

/ Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) 342

From A Voice from the South (1892) 344

/ Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) 346

From The Present Status and Intellectual Progress of Colored Women (1893) 348

/ Samuel L. Clemens [Mark Twain] (1835-1910) 358

From The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) 361

/ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) 370

The Intervention of Peter (1898) 374

/ Sutton Griggs (1872-1930) 379

From Imperium in Imperio (1899) 381

/ Caroline Hollingsworth Pemberton (186?-1927) 384

From Stephen the Black (1899) 386

/ George Henry White (1852-1918) 390

From The Negroes' Temporary Farewell to Congress (1901) 392

/ Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) 393

White Weeds (ca. 1903) 397

/ Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) 412

From As the Lord Lives, He Is One of Our Mother's Children (1903) 416

/ William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934) 418

Has the Race the Element of Self-Salvation in It? (1903) 423

The Niagara Movement: The Men and Ideas behind It 425

From The Niagara Movement "Declaration of Principles" (1905) 427

/ Kelly Miller (1863-1939) 430

An Open Letter to Thomas Dixon, Jr. (1905) 432

/ Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1869-1931) 443

"Brutal Burnt Offerings" (1909) 447

/ Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-1949) 451

"A Call to Action"

the Advent of the NAACP (1909) 455

/ William Pickens (1881-1954) 458

From The New Negro (1916) 462

/ Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) 465

From A Century of Negro Migration (1918) 467.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0826413706

0826413455

0826405673

OCLC:

28708998