The Broadview anthology of American literature / general editors: Derrick R. Spires, Cornell University [and 11 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spires, Derrick Ramon, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature.

Genre:

Literature.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada ; Tonawanda, NY, USA : Broadview Press, [2022]-

Summary:

"About the Anthology Covering American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, the first two volumes of The Broadview Anthology of American Literature represent a substantial reconceiving of the canon of early American literature. Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, the anthology balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with an emphasis on American literature's diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Volume A Beginnings to 1820: This anthology's online component is available at sites.broadviewpress.com/baalonline

Indigenous Oral and Visual Literatures

Wampanoag

[Moshup Story]

Mi'kmaq

Petroglyph of Human Figure and Sun

Petroglyph Tracing

Page of a Mi'kmaq Prayer Book

Mohegan

Painted Wood-Splint Storage Basket

Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)

From [Creation Story]

From "The Creation"

Origin of Folk Stories

Thanksgiving Address

Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations

Wampum Belts

Ha: Ye `wenta' (Hiawatha) Belt

Two Row Wampum

In Context: Interpreting the Two-Row Wampum [video selection]

Ojibwe

From "The Birth of Nenabozho"

Nanabush Eats the Artichokes

Nanabozho

[Nanabush Story] [audio selection]

Ojibwe Pictographs

Cherokee

Why the Possum's Tail Is Bare

Sequoyah, Cherokee Syllabary

[The Belt that Would Not Burn]

Maya

From the Dresden Codex

From the Popol Vuh

Navajo (Dine)

From the Creation Story

Tse' Hone / Newspaper Rock

Coast Salish

Maiden of Deception Pass

[Samish version, translated into English]

[English version]

Tracy Powell, The Maiden of Deception Pass

Hul'q'umi'num House Post

Lummi House Post

Battle at Sea

Coyote and Rock [audio selection]

Civilizations in Contact

Vinland - From Erik the Red's Saga

From The Saga of the Greenlanders The Caribbean

From Christopher Columbus with Bartolome de las Casas, Journal of the First

Voyage to America

Christopher Columbus, Letter of Columbus to Various Persons Describing the Results of His First Voyage and Written on the Return Journey

From Michele de Cuneo, letter [Concerning Columbus's Second Voyage]

From Bartolome de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Mexico

From Hernan Cort6s, Second Letter to the Spanish Crown

From the anonymous manuscript of Tlatelolco

Florida and New Mexico

From Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo, La Florida

From Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, La Florida dellnca

From Gaspar Perez de Villagra, History of New Mexico

The Pueblo Revolt

Antonio de Otermm, letter on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, 8 September 1680

How the Spaniards Came to Shung-Opovi, How They Built a Mission, and How the Hopi Destroyed the Mission

Northeastern Woodlands

Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Accounts of the Arrival of the Whites

The Coming of the Whites

Prediction of the Arrival of the White People

Indian Account of the First Arrival of the Dutch at New York Island

From Thomas Hariot, A Briefand True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

John White, Selected Watercolors

Caleb Cheeshateaumauk, letter to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England, 1663

Mittark, Agreement of Mittark and His People Not to Sell Land to the English

Handsome Lake, "How the White Race Came to America and Why the Gai'wiio' Became a Necessity"

In Context: The Myth of Thanksgiving

From Edward Winslow, "A Letter Sent from New England to a Friend in These

Parts," Mourt's Relation

From William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation

Abraham Lincoln, A Proclamation, 3 October 1863

New France

From Samuel de Champlain, Voyages of Samuel Champlain

From Relation of the Discoveries and Voyages of Cavalier de La Salle from 1679 to 1681

From Chrestien LeClercq, New Relation of Gaspesia, with the Customs and Religion of the Gaspesian Indians

California

From Antonio de la Ascencion, A Brief Report of the Discovery in the South Sea

From Pablo Tac, "Conversion of the San Luisenos of Alta California"

From Lorenzo Asisara with Thomas Savage, [Account of Mission Life]

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

From The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Chapter 4: How We Entered Inland

From Chapter 5: How the Governor Left the Ships

From Chapter 14: How Four Christians Departed

Chapter 15: Of What Happened to Us in the Villa of Malhado

From Chapter 17: How the Indians Came Forth and Brought with Them Andrei

Dorantes and Castillo and Estevanico

Chapter 21: Of How We Cured Some Sick People Here

From Chapter 22: How They Brought Us Other Sick People the Next Day

From Chapter 26: Of the Nations and Languages

From Chapter 27: Of How We Moved on and Were Well Received

Chapter 33: How We Came upon the Track of Christians

Chapter 34: Of How I Sent for the Christians

From Chapter 36: Of How We Had Churches Built in That Land

John Smith

From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles

From The Third Book

From Chapter 1

From Chapter 2: What Happened Till the First Supply

From Chapter 8: Captain Smith's Journey to Pamunkey

From The Fourth Book

From The Sixth Book

From A Description of New England

In Context: Alternative Accounts of Wahunsonacock and Pocahontas

William Bradford

From Of Plymouth Plantation

From The First Book

From Chapter 1: [The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England]

From Chapter 4: Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal

Chapter 9: Of Their Voyage, and How They Passed the Sea; and of Their Safe

Arrival at Cape Cod

From Chapter 10: Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation; and

What Befell Them Thereabout

From The Second Book

From Chapter 11: The Remainder of Anno 1620 [The Mayflower Compact] [The Starving Time] [Indian Relations]

From Chapter 12: Anno Domini 1621 [Mayflower Departs and Corn Planted] [Indian Diplomacy] [First Thanksgiving]

From Chapter 14: Anno Domini 1623 [End of the "Common Course and Condition"]

From Chapter 19: Anno Domini 1628 [A Visit from the Dutch] [Thomas Morton of Merrymount]

From Chapter 25: Anno Domini 1634 [Captain Stone, the Dutch, and the Connecticut Indians]

From Chapter 28: Anno Domini 1637 [The Pequot War]

From Chapter 32: Anno Domini 1642 [Wickedness Breaks Forth] [A Horrible Case of Bestiality] a

From Chapter 34: Anno Domini 1644 [Proposal to Remove to Nauset]

From Of Plymouth Plantation [selections from Chapters 1, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 23, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, and 35]

In Context: Mourt's Relation

From Edward Winslow and William Bradford, A Relation or Journal of the Proceedings of the Plantation Settled at Plymouth in New England [Mourt's Relation]

From Robert Cushman, Reasons and Considerations Touching the Lawfulness of Removing out of England into the Parts of America

In Context: Mapping Colonial Conflict

John Underhill, "The Figure of the Indians' Fort or Palizado in New England and the Manner of Destroying It by Captain Underhill and Captain Mason," News from America

John Tinker, Uncas, Wesawegun, Cassacinamon, Harry Wright, and Ninigret, "Plan of the Pequot Country and Testimony of Uncas, Cassacinamon, and Wesawegun"

William Hubbard, A Map of New-England

Thomas Morton

From The New English Canaan

The Author's Prologue

From Book 1

From Chapter 1: Proving New England the Principal Part of All America

Chapter 2: Of the Original of the Natives

Chapter 4: Of Their Houses and Habitations

Chapter 7: Of Their Childbearing

Chapter 9: Of Their Pretty Conjuring Tricks

Chapter 13: Of Their Magazines or Storehouses

Chapter 16: Of Their Acknowledgement of the Creation, and Immortality of the Soul

Chapter 18: Of Their Custom in Burning the Country

Chapter 19: Of Their Inclination to Drunkenness

Chapter 20: That the Savages Live a Contented Life

From Book 3

Chapter 14: Of the Revels of New Canaan

Chapter 15: Of a Great Monster Supposed to Be at Ma-re-Mount; and the

Preparation Made to Destroy It

Chapter 16: How the Nine Worthies Put Mine Host of Ma-re-Mount into the

Enchanted Casde at Plymouth, and Terrified Him with the Monster Briareus

John Winthrop

A Model of Christian Charity

From The Journal of John Winthrop

Anne Hutchinson

The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newtown

In Context: John Winthrop's Record of Anne Hutchinson's Testimony

Roger Williams

From A Key into the Language of America

From Chapter 1: Of Salutation

From Chapter 21: Of Religion, the Soul, Etc

From Chapter 29: Of Their War, Etc

From The Bloody Tenet of Persecution

Syllabus of the Work

From [Address] to the Right Honourable Both Houses of the High Court of Parliament

From Chapter 2

From Chapter 9

From Chapter 16

From Chapter 39

From Chapter 138

Letter to the Town of Providence

From Hireling Ministry None of Christf's

Anne Bradstreet

Prologue

From The Four Monarchies

An Elegy upon That Honourable and Renowned Knight, Sir Philip Sidney

In Honour of That High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth of Most Happy Memory

To the Memory of My Dear and Ever Honored Father Thomas Dudley Esq

Contemplations

The Flesh and the Spirit

The Author to Her Book

Before the Birth of One of Her Children

To My Dear and Loving Husband

A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment

Another [Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment I]

Another [Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment II]

To Her Father with Some Verses

In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659

In Memory of My Dear Grand-Child Elizabeth Bradstreet

In Memory of My Dear Grand-Child Anne Bradstreet

On My Dear Grand-Child Simon Bradstreet

For Deliverance from a Fever

Contents note continued: Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666

As Weary Pilgrim

To My Dear Children

From Meditations Divine and Moral

Michael Wigglesworth

From The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth

From The Day of Doom Or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment

From Meat Out of the Eater

Mary Rowlandson

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God

In Context: Editions of Rowlandson's Narrative

In Context: Picturing Mary Rowlandson

In Context: Indigenous Experiences of Metacom's War

From John Easton, letter to Josiah Winslow, 26 May 1675

James Quannapaquait with unnamed magistrates, The Examination and Relation of James Quannapaquait, alias James Rumny-Marsh

Massachusetts Council, order regarding Indigenous allies

Numphow and John Line, letter to Thomas Henchman, November 1675

James Printer

From Daniel Gookin, An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England in the Years 1675, 1676, 1677

Attributed to James Printer, note tacked to a tree, c. 1676

From Andrew Pittimee, Quanahpohkit, John Mague, and James Speen, petition to the Governor and Council of the Massachusetts Colony, June 1676

William Ahaton, petition to the Governor and Council of the Massachusetts Colony, July 1676

From William Wannukhow, Joseph Wannukhow, and John Appamatahqeen, petition to the Boston Court of Assistants, 5 September 1676

Edward Taylor

[Acrostic Love Poem to Elizabeth Fitch]

From God's Determinations Touching His Elect

From Preparatory Meditations before My Approach to the Lord's Supper

Upon a Spider Catching a Fly

Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold Huswifery

Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children

The Ebb and Flow

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

82: [Divina Lysi mia] / [My divine Lysis]

92: [Silly, you men]

92: [Hombres necios] / [Silly, you men]

165: [Semblance of my elusive love, hold still

]

165: [Detente, Sombra de mi bien Esquivo] / [Semblance of my elusive love, hold still

In Context: The Frontispieces to Sor Juana's Published Works

From the Reply to Sor Philothea

In Context: Sor Philothea's Letter to Sor Juana

Samuel Sewall

From Diary of Samuel Sewall

The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial

In Context: John Saffin's Response to The Selling of Joseph

Cotton Mather

From The Wonders of the Invisible World

From Enchantments Encountered

From The Trial of Martha Carrier

In Context: The Salem Witch Trials

Canassatego

From Speech at Lancaster, 26 June 1744

From Speech at Lancaster, 4 July 1744

In Context: Indigenous-Settler Negotiations in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

From George Washington, The Journal of Major George Washington

Jonathan Edwards

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

In Context: The Preaching of Jonathan Edwards

[Personal Narrative]

From A History of the Work of Redemption

James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw

A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of fames Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself

Elizabeth Ashbridge

Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge

In Context: Quaker Conversion Narratives

Contexts: Immigration and Indentured Servitude

Advertisement, The Pennsylvania Gazette (10 August 1738)

Advertisement, The Pennsylvania Gazette (29 October 1766)

Notice, New York Independent Journal (24 January 1784)

Elizabeth Sprigs, letter to John Sprigs, 22 September 1756

From Thomas Lloyd, letter to Edmond Hector, 10 October 1756

From Gottlieb Mittelberger, Gottlieb Mittelberger's Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750 and Return to Germany in the Year 1754

Lucy Terry

Bars Fight

In Context: Josiah Holland's Account of the Bars Fight

John Marrant

A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black

Sagoyewatha

[Reply to the Missionary Jacob Cram]

[Reply to President Washington, 31 March 1792]

Benjamin Franklin

From The New-England Courant [The "Silence Dogood" Papers]

The Speech of Miss Polly Baker

The Way to Wealth: Preface to Poor Richard Improved

Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One

Drinking Song

Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America

On the Slave Trade

From The Autobiography

Part 1

Part 2

The Autobiography [full text]

The Autobiography [modernized text]

In Context: Portraits of Benjamin Franklin

In Context: Correspondence Between William Franklin and Benjamin Franklin

In Context: Franklin's Cultural and Literary Influences

In Context: France Mourns Benjamin Franklin

Samson Occom

[Autobiographical Narrative]

From A Sermon, Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian

The Sufferings of Christ

The Most Remarkable and Strange State, Situation, and Appearance of Indian Tribes in This Great Continent

Elm Bark Box

Sarah Kemble Knight

The Journal of Madame Knight

In Context: Boston and New York in the Early Eighteenth Century

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

From Letters from an American Farmer

From Letter 2: On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer

From Letter 3: What Is an American?

From Letter 4: Description of the Island of Nantucket

From Letter 9: Description of Charles-Town

From Letter 10: On Snakes; and on the Hummingbird

From Letter 12: Distresses of a Frontier Man

In Context: Nantucket and Charles-Town

In Context: Reactions to Letters from an American Farmer

In Context: Rationalizing Colonialism: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Washington

John Adams and Abigail Adams

From Abigail Adams to John Adams, 19 August 1774

From John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 September 1774

John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 October 1775

Abigail Adams to John Adams, 27 November 1775

Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March 1776

From John Adams to Abigail Adams, first letter of 3 July 1776

John Adams to Abigail Adams, second letter of 3 July 1776

John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 February 1777

Abigail Adams to John Adams, 8 February 1777

John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 September 1813

Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 28 October 1813

John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 15 November 1813

Thomas Paine

From Common Sense

Introduction

From Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise

Remarks on the English Constitution

From Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession

Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs

In Context: A Response to Common Sense

From Charles Inglis, The Deceiver Unmasked

From The American Crisis

From Rights of Man, Part Two

Ld from The Age of Reason

Thomas Jefferson

From The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America

In Context: British and American Reactions to the Declaration of Independence

From Notes on the State of Virginia

From Query 5: Its Cascades and Caverns?

From Query 6: A Notice of the Mines and Other Subterraneous Riches

From Query 8: The Number of its Inhabitants?

From Query 11: A Description of the Indians Established in That State?

From Query 14: The Administration of Justice and Description of the Laws?

From Query 17: The Different Religions Received into That State?

Query 18: The Particular Customs and Manners That May Happen to Be Received in That State?

From Query 19: The Present State of Manufactures, Commerce, Exterior and Interior Trade? bird

In Context: Responses to Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia

From review of'." Observations sur la Virginie, par M.J., traduites de l'Anglais," Mercure de France

From James McCune Smith, "On the Fourteenth Query of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on Virginia" The Anglo-African Magazine

The Federalist

From The Federalist

No. 1 [Alexander Hamilton]

No. 6 [Alexander Hamilton]

No. 9 [Alexander Hamilton]

No. 10 [James Madison]

No. 51 [James Madison]

Venture Smith

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa

Contexts: Slavery and Resistance

From King Alfonso I (Nzinga Mbemba) of letter to King Joao III of Portugal, 18 October 1526

From Bartolome de las Casas, History of the Indies

From Bernardino de Manzanedo, dispatch to King Charles I of Spain

From John Rolfe, letter to Sir Edwin Sandys, January 1620

From Edward Waterhouse, "A Declaration of the State of the Colony and Affairs in Virginia"

From Richard Ligon, A True and Exact

History of the Island of Barbados

From An Act for the Encouragement of the Importation of White Servants

John Saffin, "The Negroes Character"

Anonymous, letter to the South Carolina Gazette, 14 October 1732

From the South Carolina Negro Act (1740)

From John Woolman, Some Considerations

On the Keeping of Negroes

Rrom James Grainger, The Sugar-Cane

Belinda Sutton, "The Petition of Belinda, an African"

Prince Hall, A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge, 24 June 1797

From George Lawrence, An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade

From William Hamilton, An Address to the New York African Society for Mutual Relief

From "Old Elizabeth," Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Coloured Woman

From Jupiter Hammon, An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York

Benjamin Banneker, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 19 August 1791

From Peter Williams Jr., "An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade," 1 January 1808

Contents note continued: From Boyrereau Brinch, The Blind African

Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-named Jeffrey Brace

Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa

From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Chapter 1 [full text]

Chapter 2

From Chapter 3

From Chapter 3 [additional selections]

From Chapter 4

From Chapter 5

Chapter 5 [full text]

From Chapter 6

From Chapter 7

Chapter 7 [full text]

From Chapter 8

From Chapter 9 [additional selections]

From Chapter 10

From Chapter 11

From Chapter 12

In Context: Equiano's Narrative as a Philadelphia Abolitionist Pamphlet

In Context: Reactions to Olaudah Equiano's Work

[Note to Instructors: The Interesting Narrative is among over

Available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume

Absalom Jones

The Petition of the People of Colour

From A Thanksgiving Sermon

Richard Allen and Absalom Jones

From A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia

Richard Allen

From "Confession of John Joyce, Alias Davis, Who Was Executed on Monday, the 14th of March, 1808"

Herman Mann and Deborah Sampson

From The Female Review In Context: Picturing Deborah Sampson

Contexts: Rebellions and Revolutions

"Pontiac's War"

From anonymous [believed to be Robert Navarre], Journal of the Pontiac Conspiracy

From George III, The Royal Proclamation of 1763

The Paxton Boys' Massacres

Benjamin Franklin, A Narrative of the Late Massacres, in Lancaster County, of a Number of Indians, Friends of This Province, By Persons Unknown. With Some Observations on the Same from The Apology of the Paxton Volunteers, Adapted to the Candid and Impartial World

The Revolutionary War

Patrick Henry, Virginia Stamp Act

Resolutions

From John Dickinson, Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of

The British Colonies

"Brutus," To the Free and Loyal Inhabitants of the City and Colony of New York

Announcement of the Formation of the Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York

Proceedings of Farmington, Connecticut, on the Boston Port Act

From George III, Speech to Parliament, 30 November 1774

From Response of the House of Commons, 8 December 1774

From William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry

From Samuel Johnson, "Taxation No Tyranny: An Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress"

"What Would Satisfy the Americans?"

"Join, or Die"

Poems and Songs

Anonymous ("A Son of Liberty"), "A New Song, Addressed to the Sons of Liberty, on the Continent of America; Particularly to the Illustrious, Glorious and Never to Be Forgotten Ninety-two of Boston"

Anonymous ("A Young Woman of Virginia"), "Virginia Banishing Tea"

Philip Freneau, from American Liberty

From Lemuel Haynes, "The Batde of Lexington"

Ruth Bryant, "An Address to the Sons of Liberty"

Ruth Bryant, "The American Maid's Choice"

Hannah Griffins, "Upon Reading a Book Entitled Common Sense"

Joseph Stansbury

"Verses to the Tories"

"The United States"

Francis Hopkinson, "A Camp Ballad"

Jonathan Odell, "The Old Year and the New: A Prophecy"

Margaretta Faugeres, "A Salute to the Fourteenth Anniversary of American Independence"

From Dunmore's Proclamation, 1775

From Edward Rudedge, letter to Ralph Izard, 8 December 1775

Declaration by the Representatives of the People of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, Assembled in General Convention, 14 December 1775

From Samuel Seabury, An Alarm to the Legislature of the Province ofNew York, Occasioned by the Present Political Disturbances in North America, Addressed to the Honourable Representatives in General Assembly Convened

From Reverend John Lindsay, letter to Dr. William Robertson, 6 August 1776

The Constitution of the United States

From Noah Webster, An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution

From Mercy Otis Warren, History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution

From Joseph Plumb Martin, A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier

The French Revolution, and the Revolutionary Call for Women's Rights

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

From Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman

"The Rights of Woman" in America

From Annis Boudinot Stockton, letter to her daughter [Julia Stockton Rush] 22 March 1793

From anonymous ("A Lady"), The Philadelphia Minerva

The Haitian Revolution

From Baron de Wimpffen, A Voyage to Saint

Domingo, in the Years 1788, 1789, and 1790 Toussaint Louverture, Proclamation, 29 August 1793

Thomas Jefferson on the Haitian Revolution, Selected letters

The Haitian Revolution in American Newspapers

From Abraham Bishop, "The Rights of Black Men"

From Proclamation by Leger-Felicirf Sonthonax, Civil Commissioner of the Republic delegate to the French Islands of Leeward America, in order to restore order and public tranquility

Declaration of the Independence of the Blacks of St. Domingo

From Haitian Declaration of Independence

From Jean-Jacques Dessalines, "Liberty or Death. Proclamation. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Governor General, to the People of Hayti"

From Lenora Sansay, Secret History, Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo

From Charles Brockden Brown, "On the Consequences of Abolishing the Slave Trade to the West Indian Colonies"

J. Barlow, selected engravings

From Condy Raguet, "Account of the Massacre in St. Domingo in May 1806"

From William Wells Brown, St. Domingo: Its Revolutions and Its Patriots

From Baron de Vastey, `The Colonial System Unveiled'

Gabriel's Rebellion and Other Rebellions by Enslaved Americans

Newspaper Reports

From Robert Sutcliff, Travels in Some Parts of North America in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806

[Note to Instructors: Secret History is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume

Judith Sargent Murray

"On the Equality of the Sexes"

From The Gleaner Contemplates the Future Prospects of Women in This "Enlightened Age"

Briton Hammon

A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprising Deliverance ofBriton Hammon, A Negro Man

Philip Freneau

From A Poem on the Rising Glory of America

From The Rising Glory of America

From Some Account of the Capture of the Ship Aurora

From The British Prison Ship

The Hurricane

The Wild Honey Suckle

The Indian Burying Ground

On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man

To Sir Toby

In Context: Slavery in the Caribbean

On the Religion of Nature

Reflections on the Gradual Progress of Nations from Democratical States to

Despotic Empires

On the Universality of Other Attributes of the God of Nature

Phillis Wheatley

To Maecenas

To the University of Cambridge, in New-England

To the King's Most Excellent Majesty

On Being Brought from Africa to America

On Imagination

To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth

To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works

A Farewell to America. To Mrs. S.W.

To His Excellency General Washington

On the Death of General Wooster

On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield

Selected Letters 729 to Obour Tanner, 19 May 1772

To Selina Hastings, 27 June 1773

To Colonel David Wooster, 18 October 1773

To Obour Tanner, 30 October 1773

To Samson Occom, 11 February 1774

In Context: Preface to Phillis Wheadey's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

In Context: Reactions to Phillis Wheadey's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age

On the Death of a Young Gentleman

An Hymn to the Morning

On Recollection

Lemuel Haynes

From Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-Keeping

Universal Salvation: A Very Ancient Doctrine

Royall Tyler

The Contrast, A Comedy; In Five Acts from The Algerine Captive

Susanna Haswell Rowson

Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom

From Charlotte Temple

Hannah Webster Foster

The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton

In Context: Elizabeth Whitman

In Context: The Coquette and the Eighteenth-Century Seduction Novel

In Context: Eighteenth-Century Marriage Advice

From The Boarding-School; Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils

Popular Literature and Print Culture

Bay Psalm Book

From the Preface

Psalm 23 [King James Version]

Psalm 23 [Bay Psalm Book]

Samuel Sewall, ["Verses upon a New Century"]

Henry Timberlake, "A Translation of the War-Song" [of the Cherokee]

From Benjamin Harris, The New England Primer

From Benjamin Franklin, The Printer to the Reader

Anonymous ("A Lady"), "Woman's Hard Fate"

Anonymous, New England Bravery

Samuel Davies, from "The Duty of Christians to Propagate their Religion Among

Heathens, Earnesdy Recommended to the Masters of Negro Slaves in Virginia"

Samuel Davies, from "The Rule of Equity"

Mary Nelson, "Forty Shillings Reward"

In Context: Forty Shillings Reward

Mercy Otis Warren, "A Thought on the Inestimable Blessing of Reason"

Mercy Otis Warren, "On a Survey of the Heavens"

From James Revel, "The Poor, Unhappy, Transported Felon"

Contents note continued: From William Bartram, Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws

From Philip Freneau, "The Country Printer"

From George Washington, Farewell Address

Anonymous, "Every Man His Own Politician"

From The Philadelphia Repository and Weekly Register

L'Embonpoint

The Mother

From anonymous ("Volina"), "You Say We're Fond of Fops

Why Not?"

Samuel Woodworth, "The Patriotic Diggers"

William Ellery Channing, sermons

From "The Moral Argument against Calvinism"

From "A Discourse on Some of the Distinguishing Opinions of Unitarians" ["The Baltimore Sermon"]

Charles Brockden Brown

From An Address to the Government of the US on the Cession ofLouisiana to the French Somnambulism: A Fragment [Note to Instructors: Ormond and Edgar Huntly are among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume

David George

An Account of the Life of David George

Mary Jemison

From A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison In Context: Illustrating Jemison's Narrative

Tecumseh

Speech to William Henry Harrison

Speech to the Osages

Washington Irving

From A History of New York

Chapter 5 [full chapter]

The Wife

Rip Van Winkle

In Context: Images of Rip Van Winkle

In Context: A German Source for "Rip Van Winkle"

English Writers on America

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Traits of Indian Character

Appendices

Reading Poetry

[Note to Instructors and Students: See the anthology's companion website for further supplemental resources, including a selection of historical maps and an interactive timeline]

Volume B 1820 to Reconstruction

William Apess

From A Son of the Forest

An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man

In Context: The Mashpee Struggle for Land Rights and Self Determination

From Eulogy on King Philip

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

From Hope Leslie

Cacoethes Scribendi

Berkeley Jail

From Slavery in New England

James Fenimore Cooper

From The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757

From Preface

From volume

From Volume 2

From Chapter 15

In Context: Thomas Cole and The Last of the Mohicans

In Context: The Illustrated Editions of The Last of the Mohicans

In Context: Introduction to the 1831 London Edition

[Note to Instructors: The Last of the Mohicans is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume

Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Death of an Infant

The Suttee

To the First Slave Ship

Indian Names

Slavery

The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers

Our Aborigines

To a Shred of Linen

Fallen Forests

William Cullen Bryant

Thanatopsis

To a Waterfowl

To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe

The Prairies

Death of Lincoln

The Night Journey of a River

Contexts: Nature and the Environment

Nature and the Environment: Changing Views

From William Cullen Bryant, "Forest Hymn"

John James Audubon, Bird Paintings

From Charles Lane, "The Consociate Family Life"

From Susan Fenimore Cooper, Rural Hours

The Hudson River School

The Hudson River School [additional selections]

Transportation and the Environment

The Erie Canal

From "The Canal Policy of the State of New York: Report," The Buffalo Commercial

The Transcontinental Railroad

From "Pacific Railroad Completed," The National Republican

The Mississippi River

Urban and Industrial Environments

From Matthew Hale Smith, Sunshine and Shadow in New York

From Chapter 40: Central Park

From Chapter 42: Life Among the Lowly

Slavery, Plantation Agriculture, and the Environment

From Charles Ball, Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, A Black Man

From T.B. Thorpe, "Cotton and Its Cultivation," Harper's New Monthly Magazine

From Frederick Law Olmsted, The Cotton Kingdom

From Volume 2, Chapter 4: The Exceptional Large Planters

From Volume 2, from Chapter 8: The Condition and Character of the Privileged Classes of the South

The West

From Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast

From Frederick Law Olmsted, "The Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove"

People of Yosemite: The Photographic Record

From John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

Indigenous Perspectives

From Chief Seattle, Speech, 1854

"Chief Seattle," Speech, 1974

Plains Ledger Art

Black Hawk, Images from the Black Hawk Ledger

George Moses Horton

The Lover's Farewell

On Liberty and Slavery

The Slave's Complaint

On Hearing of the Intention of a Gendeman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom

Lines to My

The Fearful Traveller in the Haunted Castle

Reflections from the Flash of a Meteor

Imploring to Be Resigned at Death

On the Pleasures of College Life

Division of an Estate

For the Fair Miss M.M. McLean, An Acrostic

George Moses Horton, Myself

The Southern Refugee

The Obstructions of Genius

Death of an Old Carriage Horse

Like Brothers We Meet

Weep

Lincoln Is Dead

From "Life of George M. Horton, the Colored Bard of North Carolina"

Catharine Brown

Selected letters

Letter to Loring S. Williams and Matilda Loomis Williams, 5 July 1819

Letter "To a Young Lady in Philadelphia," 28 January 1820

Letter to David Brown, 12 August 1820

From a letter to Mrs. A.H., 2 June 1821

John Brown

From John Brown's Provisional Constitution

In Context: "John Brown Song"

John Brown's Last Speech

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft / Bamewawagezhikaquay

To the Pine Tree / Translation

The Contrast

By an Ojibwa Female Pen

To My Ever Beloved and Lamented Son William Henry

Mishdsha, or the Magician and His Daughters: A Chippewa Tale or Legend

Invocation

Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior

On Leaving My Children John and Jane at School

Free Translation

Jose Maria Heredia

Niagara

The 1832

Version of "Niagara": Spanish Text and English Translation

From "To Washington"

Selected Letters

Letter to Josefa "Pepilla" Arango y Manzano, 31 November 1823

From a letter to Ignacio Heredia Campuzano, 15 April 1824

From a letter to Ignacio Heredia Campuzano, 17 June 1824

Vicente Perez Rosales

From Diary of Travels in California

From Travels in California: Memories of 1848, 1849, 1850

In Context: The California Gold Rush

Images of Gold Rush Days

From William Swain, letter to his mother, 12 August 1850

From Vincent Geiger, et al., Records of the Overland Journey to California of the

Charlestown Company

From Ramon Jil Navarro, "California in 1849"

Xicotencatl

From Xicotencatl

Solomon Northup

From Twelve Years a Slave In Context: Roaring River

In Context: Solomon Northup in the Popular Press

Lydia Maria Child

From Hobomok

From An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

The Quadroons

From Letters from New-York

Letter 20: Birds

Lettet 34: Woman's Rights

Letter 36: The Indians

Letter from New York [Trial of Amelia Norman]

From The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act: An Appeal to the Legislators

Of Massachusetts

From Correspondence between Lydia Maria Child, and Gov. Wise and Mrs. Mason, of Virginia

From An Appeal for the Indians

Contexts: Expansion, Native American Expulsion, and "Manifest Destiny"

"Destruction of the Chehaw Village"

Catharine Brown (Ka ty), letter to Loring S.

Williams and Matilda Loomis Williams, 5 July 1819

Cherokee Women's Petitions (1817, 1818, 1831)

From William Cullen Bryant, New York Evening Post Editorials

From 4 January 1830 9 March 1830 Andrew Jackson, message to Congress on Indian Removal

Lydia Sigourney, "The Cherokee Mothet"

From Alexis de Tocqueville, description of the Choctaw Expulsion

John Ross, letter to the Senate and House of Representatives, 28 September 1836

Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Martin Van Buren, 23 April 1838

From Eliza Whitmire, interview (1936)

Freeman Owle, "The Trail of Tears"

From Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Diary

R.M. Potter, "Hymn of the Alamo"

From Daniel S. Dickinson, "Speech upon the Joint Resolution Providing for the Annexation of Texas," 22 February 1845

From John O'Sullivan, "The Great Nation of Futurity"

From John O Sullivan or Jane Cazneau

"Annexation," The United States Magazine and Democratic Review

From Catherine Sager Pringle, Across the Plains in 1844

In Context: The Whitman Murders

From Charles Goodyear, Speech in Congress, 16 January 1846

From Walt Whitman, Brooklyn Daily Eagle editorials

"Shall We Fight It Out?"

From "Our Territory on the Pacific"

Rosalia Vallejo, "Narrative of Mrs. Rosalia Leese, Who Witnessed the Hoisting of the Bear Flag in Sonoma on the 14 th of June, 1846"

Thomas D'Arcy McGee, "The Army of the West"

From J.M. Whitfield in reply to F. Douglass [Letter on Emigration], 25 September 1853

Anonymous, "Filibustering Ethics"

Francisco P. Ramirez, editorial from El Clamor Publico, 24 July 1855

From John Rollin Ridge, "Poem (Delivered at Commencement of Oakland College, California, June 6th 1861)"

Contents note continued: From Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"

Sarah Moore Grimke

From Letters on the Equality of the Sexes

Letter 8: On the Condition of Women in the United States

Angelina Grimke Weld

From Appeal to the Christian Women of the South

From Letters to Catherine E. Beecher

Letter 12 [Human Rights Not Founded on Sex] In Context: The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Rhodora

From Nature

Chapter 1: Nature

Nature [full text]

In Context: Illustrations of Emerson's Nature

Original Hymn [Concord Hymn]

The American Scholar

An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, 15 July 1838

Each in All

The Snow-Storm

Self-Reliance

Compensation

Circles

From "The Poet"

The Poet [full text]

Experience

Threnody

Brahma

In Context: Emerson and the Lyceum Movement

Power

Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-kiak / Black Hawk

From Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk

Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk [fall text]

Elias Boudinot / Gallegina

An Address to the Whites

To the Public

Nathaniel Hawthorne

My Kinsman, Major Molineux

Young Goodman Brown

The Minister's Black Veil

Endicott and the Red Cross

The Birthmark

Rappaccini's Daughter

From The House of the Seven Gables, A Romance

Preface

From The Life of Franklin Pierce

Horn Chiefly about War Matters

In Context: "Chiefly about War Matters"

[Note to Instructors: The Scarlet Letter is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume

Robert Montgomery Bird

From Sheppard Lee

William Gilmore Simms

From The Sword and the Distaff

Grayling; or, "Murder Will Out"

The Broken Arrow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Psalm of Life

The Village Blacksmith

Excelsior

The Wreck of the Hesperus

From Poems on Slavery

The Slave's Dream

The Slave Singing at Midnight

The Quadroon Girl

Poems on Slavery [full text]

In Context: The Publication of Longfellow's Poems on Slavery

Mezzo Cammin

The Arrow and the Song

The Day Is Done

The Bridge

From Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

From Part the First

From Part the First [additional selections]

From Part the Second

From "The Building of the Ship"

The Fire of Drift-wood

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport

In Context: "The Jews at Newport"

In Context: Rebekah Hyneman, Poems on Death

The Unforgotten

Now Let Me Die

My Lost Youth

From The Song of Hiawatha

The Peace Pipe

Hiawatha's Fasting - as

Picture-Writing

From "The White-Man's Foot"

Hiawatha's Departure

In Context: The Reception of The Song of Hiawatha

The Ropewalk

Snow-Flakes

In the Churchyard at Cambridge

Paul Reveres Ride

In Context: Paul Reveres Ride

The Children's Hour

Divina Comedia

Aftermath

The Cross of Snow

Milton

The Old Bridge at Florence / II Ponte Vecchio di Firenze

Nature

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

My Cathedral

In Context: Images of Longfellow

Abraham Lincoln

From Speech delivered at the Republican State Convention in Springfield, Illinois

["A House Divided"]

From Cooper Union Address

In Context: Reactions in the New York Press to Lincoln's Cooper Union Address

First Inaugural Address

Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg

Second Inaugural Address

Frances Sargent Locke Osgood

The Maiden's Mistake

Lines

The Little Hand

Ellen Learning to Walk

Woman, A Fragment

To a Child Playing with a Watch

A Mother's Prayer in Illness

The Indian Maid's Reply to the Missionary

John Greenleaf Whittier

The Hunters of Men Massachusetts to Virginia

The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother to Her Daughters, Sold into Southern Bondage from Songs of Labor

Dedication

The Lumbermen First-Day Thoughts Maud Muller

The Prophesy of Samuel Sewall, A.D. 1697

The Common Question Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll

Edgar Allan Poe

Sonnet

To Science

The Valley of Unrest

Ligeia

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Man that Was Used Up

The Man of the Crowd

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Black Cat

The Purloined Letter

The Raven

In Context: "The Raven" in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture

The Imp of the Perverse

From "The Philosophy of Composition"

From "The Philosophy of Composition" [additional selections]

The Cask of Amontillado

From The Literati of New York City

Hop-Frog

Annabel Lee

From The Poetic Principle

Nineteenth-Century Oratory

Petalesharo or Sharitarish, "Speech of "The Pawnee Chief"

From Frances Wright, Speech at New Harmony Hall

Maria W. Stewart, "Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall"

From Michael Walsh, "An Abridgment of the Speech at the Great County Meeting in

Tammany Hall"

From Henry Highland Garnet, "Address to the Slaves of the United States of America"

In Context: The Debate Over Garnet's "Address"

From William Gilmore Simms, "The Sources of American Independence: An Oration"

From Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Address on Woman's Rights"

From John C. Calhoun, "On the Slavery Question"

In Context: Frederick Douglass on John C. Calhoun

From Daniel Webster, "On the Constitution and the Union"

From Henry Clay, "On the Compromise of 1850"

From Theodore Parker, "Of Justice and the Conscience"

From Wendell Phillips, "On the Philosophy of the Abolition Movement, Before the

Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, at Boston"

From Lucy Stone, Speech to the Sixth National Woman's Rights Convention

From Charles Sumner, "The Crime Against Kansas"

From Angelina Grimke' Weld, "Address at the Women's Loyal National League"

Bayley Wyat, "Speech by a Virginia Freedman"

From Frederick Douglass, "The Composite Nation"

From Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Speech at the National Woman's Suffrage Convention

("The Destructive Male")

Red Cloud, Speeches

Margaret Fuller

The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men. Woman versus Women

From Summer on the Lakes in 1843

From Woman in the Nineteenth Century

From Things and Thoughts in Europe

David Walker

From Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles

Appeal, etc

Article 1. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery

From Article 4. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Colonizing Plan

Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles [full text]

Contexts: Slavery and Abolition

Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwurm, "To Our Patrons," Freedom's Journal

From Zephaniah Kingsley, A Treatise on the Patriarchal, or Cooperative System of Society

From "A Treatise on the Patriarchal Slave System"

From John P. Kennedy, Swallow Barn

From Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimke Weld, and Sarah Grimke, American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses

Runaway Advertisements

Stephen C. Foster, "Old Uncle Ned"

Anonymous, "Escape from Slavery of Henry Box Brown"

From the Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

Annie Parker, "Story Telling"

From William Goodell, The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice

From Bethany Veney, The Narrative of Bethany

Veney: A Slave Woman

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

From Caroline Lee Hentz, The Planter's Northern Bride

From "Arrest of Fugitive Slaves," Cincinnati

Gazette

From The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada

William Johnson

Harriet Tubman

John W. Lindsey

From William Grose

Mrs. Christopher Hamilton

Benjamin Miller

Mary Younger

From William A. Hall

Ben Blackburn

Lydia Adams

David Grier

From Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey

Through Texas

From Roger Taney, the Dred Scott Decision

From Frederick Douglass, The Dred Scott Decision

From Austin Reed, The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict

From Mary Chesnut, Diary, 18 March 1861

From Abraham Lincoln, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 22 September 1862

From Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation, 1 January 1863

Jourdon Anderson, "Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master"

From William Marvin, Speech to the Freedmen of Marianna, 17 September 1865

From Mississippi Black Code

Advertisements Taken Out by Formerly Enslaved People Seeking Family Members

The 1866 Memphis Massacre

From Robert B. Elliott, Speech to the House of Representatives, 6 January 1874

From Frederick Douglass, "Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, Delivered at the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument," 14 April 1876

In Context: The Emancipation Memorial William Lloyd Garrison

Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society

In Context: The Boston Anti-Abolitionist Riot of 1835: "Downfal of Abolition"

Sojourner Truth

From The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave

Speech at the Akron, Ohio Women's Right Convention, 1851

In Context: Sojourner Truth's cartes de visite

In Context: Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl"

African American Oral Literature

[We Raise de Wheat]

Poor Rosy, Poor Gal

Roll, Jordan, Roll

Michael Row the Boat Ashore

O'er the Crossing

Run, N

, Run!

Charleston Gals

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Fisk University Jubilee Singers (John Wesley Work, Alfred Garfield King, Noah Walker

Contents note continued: Ryder, and J. A. Myers), "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" [audio selection]

Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel

Many Thousand Gone

Steal Away

Dinwiddie Colored Quartet (Harry B. Cruder, Sterling Rex, Clarence Meredith, and

J. Mantel Thomas), "Steal Away" [audio selection]

Slave Marriage Ceremony Supplement

Pick a Bale of Cotton

Mose "Clear Rock" Piatt, "Pick a Bale o' Cotton" [audio selection] S

De Rabbit, de Wolf an' deTar Baby

Why Brer Possum Has No Hair on His Tail

[Big Sixteen]

All God's Chillen Had Wings

The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story

How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox

James Monroe Whitfield

America

The Misanthropist

Yes! Strike Again That Sounding String

The North Star

Stanzas for the First of August

From J.M. Whitfield in Reply to F. Douglass

Martin R. Delany

Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent

From Blake; or, the Huts of America

Chapter 1: The Project

Chapter 2: Colonel Franks at Home

Chapter 3: The Fate of Maggie

Chapter 4: Departure of Maggie

Chapter 5: A Vacancy

Chapter 6: Henry's Return

Chapter 7: Master and Slave

Chapter 8: The Sale

Chapter 11: The Shadow

Harriet Beecher Stowe

From Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly

Chapter 1: In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity

Chapter 5: Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners

Chapter 7: The Mothers Struggle

Chapter 9: In Which It Appears that a Senator Is but a Man

Chapter 11: In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind

Chapter 26: Death

Chapter 40: The Martyr

Chapter 41: The Young Master

From Uncle Tom's Cabin [Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 20, 26, 40, 41, 45]

In Context: Visualizing Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Nineteenth Century

In Context: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Public

In Context: Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass Debate Harriet Beecher Stowe

[Note to Instructors: Uncle Tom's Cabin is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume]

Fanny Fern

Hints to Young Wives

Thanksgiving Story

A Practical Bluestocking

Soliloquy of a Housemaid

Critics

Mrs. Adolphus Smith Sporting the "Blue Stocking"

From Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time

Male Criticism on Ladies' Books

A Law More Nice than Just

Independence

The Working-Girls of New York

In Context: Contemporary Reviews of Fanny Fern's Work

Harriet Jacobs

From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Preface by the Author

Introduction by the Editor

Chapter 1: Childhood 1

Chapter 2: The New Master and Mistress

Chapter 5: The Trials of Girlhood

Chapter 6: The Jealous Mistress

Chapter 7: The Lover

Chapter 8: What Slaves are Taught to Think of the North

Chapter 10: A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life

Chapter 12: Fear of Insurrection

Chapter 14: Another Link to Life

Chapter 15: Continued Persecutions

Chapter 17: The Flight

Chapter 21: The Loophole of Retteat

Chapter 29: Preparations for Escape

Chapter 39: The Confession

Chapter 40: The Fugitive Slave Law

Chapter 41: Free at Last

In Context: Fugitive Slave Advertisement for Harriet Jacobs

In Context: The "Peculiar Circumstances" of Slavery

From Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, with Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, "The Affectionate and Christian Address of Many Thousands of Women of Great Britain and Ireland to Their Sisters the

Women of the United States of America"

From Julia Tyler, "To the Duchess of Sutherland and the Ladies of England"

Southern Literary Messenger

From Harriet Jacobs, "Letter from a Fugitive Slave," New York Daily Tribune

William Wells Brown

From "The Narrative of the Life and Escape of William Wells Brown"

From Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States

Chapter 1: The Negro Sale

Chapter 2: Going to the South

Chapter 3: The Negro Chase

Chapter 4: The Quadroon's Home

From Chapter 5: The Slave Market

From Chapter 15: Today a Mistress, Tomorrow a Slave

From Chapter 17: Retaliation

From Chapter 19: Escape of Clotel

Chapter 22: A Ride in a Stage-coach

From Chapter 24: The Arrest

Chapter 25: Death Is Freedom

In Context: Advertisement for a Lecture by William Wells Brown

[Note to Instructors: Clotel is among over 400

Available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume]

Henry David Thoreau

Resistance to Civil Government

In Context: The Civil Disobedience of Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane

From Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Chapter 1: Economy

Chapter 2: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

From Chapter 5: Solitude

From Chapter 6: Visitors

Chapter 11: Higher Laws

From Chapter 12: Brute Neighbors

Chapter 17: Spring

Chapter 18: Conclusion

Walden; or, Life in the Woods [full text]

In Context: The Photographs of Herbert Wendell Gleason

From A Plea for Captain John Brown

From The Maine Woods

In Context: Frederick Edwin Church Painting the Maine Woods

From A Yankee in Canada

From Journal 1850-61

Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself

In Context: Responses to Frederick Douglass's Narrative

Margaret Fuller, Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American

Slave, from The New York Tribune

A.C.C. Thompson, "To the Public. Falsehood Refuted," The Liberator

Frederick Douglass, "Reply to Mr. A.C.C. Thompson," The Liberator

From "To My Old Master"

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

The Heroic Slave

In Context: Photographs of Frederick Douglass

From My Bondage and Freedom

From Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

E.D.E.N. Southworth

From The Hidden Hand

Contexts: The Civil War and Its Literature

Dan Emmett, "I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land"

From South Carolina Secession Convention, "Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of South

Carolina from the Federal Union"

From George Templeton Strong, Diary, 13 February 1861

From Alexander Stephens, The "Cornerstone" Speech, 21 March 1861

From Mary Chesnut, Diary

Lucy Larcom, "The Nineteenth of April"

Ellen Key Blunt, "The Southern Cross"

From anonymous, "Let My People Go: A Song of the `Contrabands'"

Julia Ward Howe, "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

From Sam Watkins, Co. Aytch

From Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

James Madison Bell, "What Shall We Do with the Contrabands?"

From John Bingham, "The New Magna Carta," 11 April 1862

From Samuel S. Cox, "Emancipation and Its Results

Is Ohio to Be Africanized?"

The Battle Cry of Freedom, Union and Confederate Versions

George F. Root, "The Battle Cry of Freedom" WH. Barnes, "The Battle Cry of Freedom" (Confederate Version) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Cumberland"

Frederick Douglass, "Men of Color, to Arms!"

George Henry Boker, "The Black Regiment"

Timothy H. O'Sullivan and Alexander Gardner, Images of Gettysburg

Hannah Johnson, letter to President Lincoln, 31 July 1863

Caroline A. Ball, "The Jacket of Gray"

Emily Dickinson, "When I was small, a Woman died"

From Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches

From Mattie Jackson and L.S. Thompson, The Story of Mattie J. Jackson

From John D. Billings, Hard Tack and Coffee, or The Unwritten Story of Army Life

From Mary A. Livermore, My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal

From Chapter 2: Loyal Women of the North

From Chapter 7: After the Battle

From Chapter 11: Life in a Contraband

Camp

Washington in 1865

Chapter 24: Mother Bickerdyke

Charles C. Sawyer, "When This Cruel War Is Over" ("Weeping, Sad and Lonely")

Anonymous, "By the Hush, Me Boys"

Anonymous, "Pat Murphy of Meagher's Brigade"

Ellen Flagg, "Death the Peacemaker"

Frederick A. Bardeson, "In Libby Prison

New Year's Eve 1863-64"

From Marcus M. Spiegel, letter to his wife, 22 January 1864

Lindley Miller and Men of the 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment (African Descent)

"Song of the First of Arkansas"

George W. Bagby, "The Empty Sleeve"

Abraham Lincoln, Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland, 18 April 1864

From Thomas Morris Chester, Dispatch on the Fall of Richmond

Anonymous, "The Voices of the Guns"

Sarah E. Shuften, "Ethiopia's Dead"

Henry Timrod, "Ode"

Sarah Piatt, Poems

Hearing the Battle

July 21, 1861

Army of Occupation

The Old Slave-Music

Walt Whitman

From 1855 Leaves of Grass [Preface]

From 1855 Leaves of Grass [Song of Myself]

In Context: 1855 Leaves of Grass [Song of Myself]

From 1881 Leaves of Grass

From Inscriptions

One's Self I Sing

From Children of Adam

I Sing the Body Electric

A Woman Waits for Me

Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City

From Calamus

8 [Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me]

9 [Hours continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted] Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand

For You O Democracy

Recorders Ages Hence

When I Heard at the Close of the Day

Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes

City of Orgies

Contents note continued: I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing To a Stranger

This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame Here the Frailest Leaves of Me A Glimpse

A Leaf for Hand in Hand

Earth, My Likeness

I Dream'd in a Dream

What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?

To a Western Boy

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Song of the Redwood-Tree

From Sea-Drift

Out of the Ctadle Endlessly Rocking

As I Ebbd with the Ocean of Life

The World Below the Brine

From By the Roadside

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

I Sit and Look Out

The Dalliance of the Eagles

A Farm Picture

The Runner

From Drum-Taps

Beat! Beat! Drums!

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night

The Wound-Dresser

Long, Too Long America

Reconciliation

As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap Camerado

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim

From Memories of President Lincoln

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd

O Captain! My Captain!

This Dust Was Once the Man

Hushd Be the Camps To-day

In Context: Nineteenth-Century Reviews of Leaves of Grass

In Context: Nineteenth-Century Reviews of Leaves of Grass [additional selections]

In Context: The Design of Leaves of Grass, 1855-60

Live Oak, with Moss

From Democratic Vistas

In Context: Portraits of Whitman

From Autumn Rivulets

This Compost

The Sleepets

Dumb Kate

An Early Death

From Specimen Days

Two Brooklyn Boys

The Wounded from Chancellorsville

Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier

The Real War Will Never Get In the Books from November Boughs

Negro Slaves in New York

Paying the 1st USCT New Orleans in 1848 In Context: Whitman's Correspondence with Emerson

Herman Melville

Hawthorne and His Mosses, By a Virginian Spending July in Vermont

Moby-Dick, or the Whale

Chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale

From Moby-Dick [Chapters 1, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32, 36, 38, 41, 42, 48, 49, 64, 68, 87, 89, 93, 94, 95, 99, 102, 128, 132, 135, and Epilogue]

In Context: Nineteenth-Century Images of Whales and Whaling

In Context: The Story of the Essex

In Context: Selection of Melville's Letters to Hawthorne

Bartleby, the Scrivener

In Context: The Book of Job

The Encantadas; or, Enchanted Isles

The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tat tat us of Maids

Benito Cereno

From The Confidence-Man

From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

The Portent

Misgivings

The March into Virginia

Dupont's Round Fight

A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight

ShUoh

Malvern Hill

The House-top

The Apparition

Supplement

From Clarel

Canto 17 ("Nathan")

From Bridegroom Dick

The Aeolian Harp The Maldive Shark Art

Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)

[Note to Instructots: Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume]

John Howard Payne, "Home, Sweet Home!"

In Context: The Reception of "Home, Sweet Home!"

From anonymous ("A Quondam Sailor"), "Evening Music at Sea"

The Haitian Revolution in Literatute

Anonymous ("S"), "Theresa, A Haytien Tale"

From John Greenleaf Whittier, "Toussaint L'Ouvertuie"

From Ignace Nau, "Dessalines"

Anonymous ("Yankee"), "A Song Written for the Fourth of July 1828, Addressed to the Working Classes"

Anonymous, `"Up East' Versus `Down East'"

Anonymous, "The Mill Has Shut Down"

Factory Girls, the Lowell Mills, and the Lowell Offering

Anonymous, "The Lowell Factory Girl"

From the Lowell Offering

From "Editorial Corner"

From anonymous ("A Factory Girl"), "Gold Watches"

Anonymous ("A.M.S."), "Home"

From anonymous ("A Factory Girl"), "Factory Girls"

From anonymous ("S.G.B."), "The Pleasures of Factory Life"

Anonymous ("Lucinda"), Abby's Year at Lowell

In Context: Factory Girls

From anonymous ("Pi"), "Testimony of Females to the Evils of the

Factory System"

From Mary Paul, "Letters to Her Father" (1845)

Sarah Mapps Douglass, "The Stranger in America"

Anonymous, "Know Ye Not That Ye Are Men?"

Blackface, Minstrelsy, and "Jim Crow"

Thomas D. Rice, "The Original Jim Crow" "Jim Crack Corn, or the Blue Tail Fly"

From William Leman Rede (written for Thomas D. Rice), Flight to America In Context: The Reception of Flight to America

In Context: The Minstrel Show

From Charles Townsend, Negro Minstrels With End Men's Jokes, Gags, Speeches, Etc.

From Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion: Or Life in New York

From Act 1, Scene 1

From Act 1, Scene 1 online from Act 2, Scene 1 online from Act 3, Scene 1 online from Act 5, Scene 1 online Epilogue

In Context: The Success of Fashion

From "The New Comedy at the Park Theatre," New York Herald

Elizabeth Oakes Smith, "The Drowned Mariner"

From George Lippard, The Quaker City; or The Monks of Monk-Hall: A Romance of

Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime

The Origin and Object of This Book

From Chapter Thirteenth: The Gold Which Devil-Bug Won

Chapter Fourteenth: Devil-Bug's Dream

Anonymous, Davy Crockett Tales

Phoebe Cary, "Homes for All"

Wilhelm Weitling, "Der Kleine Kommunist" ("The Little Communist")

John Greenleaf Whittier, "The Barefoot Boy"

From Godey's Lady's Book, October 1857

Virginia De Forrest, "The Sisters"

"Enigmas"

Selected Fashion Illustrations

From Sarah Hale, "Editor's Table"

From Alice B. Neal, "The Servant Question"

Florence Fashionhunter, "Reminiscences of Bonnets"

Anonymous, "The Beautiful Snow"

From William J. Wilson, Speech Delivered at Newark, New Jersey, 1 August 1859

In Context: The First of August

From anonymous ("E.Q."), "The First of August," The Liberator

From William J. Wilson, Afric-American Picture Gallery

William Dean Howells, "The Poet's Friends"

Frances Sophia Stoughton Pratt, The "Cattle" to the "Poet"

Anonymous, "Right Names"

Anonymous ("A Mechanic's Wife"), "Capital and Labor"

From Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks

Chapter 1: Ragged Dick Is Introduced to the Reader

From Ann S. Stephens, Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter

From Edward S. Ellis, Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier

R.W. Hume, "John Chinaman"

Sarah Helen Whitman, Poems

From "Woman's Sphere"

"Science"

Popular Literature and Print Culture: A Regional Sampler

Literature of Florida

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "St Augustine"

From James Burchett Ransom ("Seymour R. Duke"), "Osceola; or Fact and Fiction, A Tale of the Seminole War"

From Moses Roper, "A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery"

From Edward Zane Carroll Judson ("Ned Buntline"), "The Red Revenger, or The Pirate King of Florida"

Stephen Foster, "Old Folks at Home"

Carrie Bell Sinclair ("A Southern Lady"), "The Homespun Dress"

From Albery Alison Whitman, "The Rape of Florida"

Literature of Texas

From Mary Austin Holley, "Observations, Historical, Geographical and Descriptive, in a Series of Letters, Written During a Visit to Austin's Colony, with a View of a Permanent Settlement in That Country, in the Autumn of 1831" from Juan Nepomuceno Segufn, Personal Memoirs of John N. Seguin

Anonymous, "The Yellow Rose of Texas"

Mirabeau Lamar, "Carmelita"

Mollie E.M. Davis, Poems

Minding the Gap

Sonnets

Cry of a People

From Elizabeth B. Custer, "Tenting on the Plains, or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas"

Literature of California and the Far West

From Richard Henry Dana Jr., "Two Years Before the Mast"

From Abigail Scott Duniway, "Captain Gray's Company, or, Crossing the Plains

And Living in Oregon"

From Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er: Memories Recalled Years Later for Her Daughter A Portfolio from Overland Monthly 1868-75

From the February 1869 Issue

From M.G. Upton, "The Plan of San Francisco"

From C. Delavan Bloodgood, "Eight Months at Sitka"

From Albert S. Evans, "In Whirlwind Valley"

Ina Coolbrith, "Rebuke"

From the October 1870 Issue

Bret Harte, "Cicely"

Clarence King, "The Falls of the Shoshone"

From the October 1874 Issue

Joaquin Miller, "Pace Implora"

Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat

From Ethels Love-Life

Elizabeth Stoddard

The Poet's Secret November

In the Still, Star-Lit Night

I Love You, But a Sense of Pain

Nameless Pain

The Wife Speaks

The Husband Speaks

One Morn I Left Him in His Bed

Last Days

From "From our Lady Correspondent," Daily Aka California

Lemorne versus Huell

The Prescription

Collected by a Valetudinarian

Out of the Deeps

Harriet Wilson

From Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life ofa Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North

Chapter 1: Mag Smith, My Mother

Chapter 3: A New Home for Me

Chapter 7: Spiritual Condition of Nig

From Chapter 8: Visitor and Departure

Chapter 10: Perplexities

Another Death

Chapter 12: The Winding Up of the Matter

William and Ellen Craft

From Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

A Dialogue

The Slave Mother

Bible Defense of Slavery

Eliza Harris

Ethiopia

The Drunkard's Child

The Revel

Advice to the Girls

Contents note continued: A Mothers Heroism

The Fugitive's Wife

Bury Me in a Free Land

Vashti

Learning to Read

In Context: Learning to Read and Write before Emancipation

Aunt Chloe

The Rallying Cry

A Double Standard

The Colored People in America

We Are All Bound Up Together

The Triumph of Freedom

A Dream

From Fancy Sketches

Letters

Breathing the Air of Freedom, 12 September 1856

Letter to John Brown, 25 November 1859

Letter to William Still, 5 July 1871

John Rollin Ridge / Yellow Bird

Reflections Irregular

The man twenty feet high, having the features of the Indian race, said to have

Been Recently Discovered in a cave somewhere in the Rocky Mountains

The Dark One to His Love

From The Life and Adventures ofJoaquin Murieta

In Context: Sensational News of Joaquin Murieta!

The Atlantic Cable

Contexts: Gender and Sexuality

Women in the Public Sphere

From Charles Sigourney, letter to Lydia

Sigourney, October 1827

From Pastoral Letter of the General

Association of Congregational Ministers

Of Massachusetts, July 1837

Maria W. Chapman, "The Times That Try

Men's Souls"

Elizabet Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Sentiments," Report of the Woman's Rights

Convention, Held at Seneca Falls, N. Y, July 19th and 20th 1848

From Report of the Proceedings of the Colored

National Convention Held at Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday, September 6, 1848

From the abstract of Richard Henry

Dana Sr., Woman

From Lucretia Mott, Discourse on Women

"Woman's Emancipation" and "Fashions for August," Harper's New Monthly Magazine

Eliza Lynn Linton, "Rights and Wrongs of Woman," Harper's New Monthly

Magazine

From Eliza W. Farnham, California, In Doors and Out

"The Mob of Novels," The Morning Comet

Thrace Talmon, "The Latest Crusade: Lady Authors and Their Critics," The National Era

Marriage and Domestic Life

From James Bean, The Christian Minister's Advice to a Married Couple

From T.S. Arthur, The Young Wife's Book; A Manual of Moral, Religious and Domestic Duties

From Lydia Sigourney, Letters to Young

Ladies

From Sylvester Graham, A Lecture to Young Men, on Chastity

From Arthur Freeling, The Young Bride's

Book

From Matthew Hale Smith, Counsels Addressed to Young Ladies and Young Men

From Matthew Hale Smith, Counsels Addressed to Young Ladies and Young Men [additional selections]

Armand Lanusse, "Epigram"

From Henry C. Wright, Marriage and Parentage; or The Reproductive Element in Man, as a Means to His Elevation and Happiness

Julia Ward Howe, "Coquette et Froide"

Julia Ward Howe, "Mind Versus Mill

Stream"

Marriage Statement of Lucy Stone and

Henry Blackwell

From Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the Use of Young

Ladies at Home and at School

Gender Crossing

Eliza Leslie, "Lucy Nelson, The Boy Girl," Juvenile Miscellany

Eliza Leslie, "Billy Bedlow, or the Girl Boy," Juvenile Miscellany

Anonymous, "Metamorphose Extraordinary"

Aha California

Anonymous, "The Man Who Thought

Himself a Woman," The Knickerbocker

From J.D. Borthwick, Three Years in California

Images: Charlotte Cushman

From Loreta Velazquez, The Woman in Battle

[Additional Selections]

L.V.F., "Our Daughters

Tom-Boys"

"Thirty Years in Disguise," The New York

Times

Images: Two-Spirit People

Masculinity, Race, and Class

From Joseph Holt Ingraham, Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf

From Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

From Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman

From Frederick Douglass, Self-Made Men

Anonymous, "Opening Day," Pennsylvania Daily Intelligencer

The Counter-jumper

From anonymous, "Natural History. The Counter-jumper," Vanity Fair

Anonymous [probably Fitz-James O'Brien], "Counter-Jumps," Vanity Fair

Same-Sex Friendship, Sex, and Love

From Philip Van Bus kirk, Diary

From Margaret Fuller, Journal

From Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein, The Mysteries of New Orleans

Bayard Taylor, "To a Persian Boy, in the Bazaar at Smyrna"

Bayard Taylor, "Love Returned"

From Bayard Taylor, Joseph and His Friend

From Rev. William Alger, "The Literature of Friendship"

From Anna Cora Mowatt, "Woman-Friendship," Women of the South Distinguished in Literature

From Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A

Woman's Thoughts about Women

Addie Brown, letter to Rebecca Primus, 20 August 1859

From "Chinese Immigration and the Cause of Free Labor," The National Era

From Julia Deane Freeman

"Woman-Friendship"

Emily Dickinson

[It's all I have to bring today -]

[I never lost as much but twice -]

[I robbed the woods -]

[These are the days when Birds come back J

[Alternative versions]

[Success is counted sweetest]

[Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -]

[Besides the Autumn poets sing]

[All overgrown by cunning moss]

[I'm "wife"-I've finished that-]

[Title divine - is mine!]

[Faith is a fine invention]

[Alternative version]

[Some keep the Sabbath going to Church -]

[The Lamp burns sure - within-]

[I came to buy a smile - today-]

[I'm Nobody! Who are you?]

[Wild nights - Wild nights!]

[Over the fence -] J

[I taste a liquor never brewed -]

[There's a certain Slant of light]

["Hope" is the thing with feathers -]

[Your Riches - taught me - Poverty]

[I found the words to every thought]

[I like a look of Agony]

[I felt a Funeral, in my Brain]

[It was not Death, for I stood up]

[A Bird came down the Walk -]

[I know that He exists]

[After great pain, a formal feeling comes -]

[This World is not conclusion]

[I like to see it lap the Miles -]

[The Soul selects her own Society-]

[One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted -]

[They shut me up in Prose-]

[This was a Poet-]

[I died for Beauty - but was scarce]

[The Malay - took the Pearl-]

[Our journey had advanced -]

[Because I could not stop for Death -]

[I dwell in Possibility-]

[He fumbles at your Soul]

[It feels a shame to be Alive -]

[This is my letter to the World]

[I'm sorry for the Dead - Today -]

[I heatd a Fly buzz - when I died -]

[The Brain - is wider than the Sky -]

[There's been a Death, in the Opposite House]

[I measure every Grief I meet]

[Much Madness is divinest Sense -]

[I started Early - Took my Dog-]

[That I did always love]

[What Soft - Cherubic Creatures -]

[My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -]

["Nature" is what We see -]

[I could bring You Jewels - had I a mind to -]

[Publication - is the Auction]

[Truth - is as old as God -]

[I never saw a Moor -]

[Color - Caste - Denomination -]

[She rose to His Requirement - dropt]

[The Poets light but Lamps -]

[A Man may make a Remark-]

[Banish Air from Air -]

[As imperceptibly as Grief]

[The Heart has narrow Banks]

[Could I but ride indefinite]

[As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies]

[A narrow Fellow in the Grass]

[The Bustle in a House]

[A Spider sewed at Night]

[Tell all the Truth but tell it slant]

[To pile like Thunder to its close]

[Apparently with no surprise]

[A Word made Flesh is seldom]

[My life closed twice before its close;]

[To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee]

In Context: The Reception of Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century

Alternative Transcriptions of Dickinson's Poems

Fascicle 13

Dickinsons Personal Correspondence

In Context: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Emily Dickinson's Letters

Rebecca Harding Davis

Life in the Iron-Mills

In Context: Pittsburgh and the Mills and Mines of Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

From A Plea for Emigration American Slavery The Right of Women to Vote

Louisa May Alcott

My Contraband

From Little Women: Part Second

In Context: Little Women Illustrated

In Context: Contemporary Reviews of Little Women Parts One and Two

Transcendental Wild Oats

[Note to Instructors: Little Women is among over 400 Available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume]

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

July 21 1861

Army of Occupation Shapes of a Soul Giving Back the Flower The End of the Rainbow An After-Poem There Was A Rose Another War Mock Diamonds The Old Slave-Music Her Blindness in Grief The Palace-Burner In Context: TJie Petroleuse The Black Princess Over in Kentucky We Two

A Pique at Parting The First Party A Woman's Last Word A New Thanksgiving

Henry James

The Story of a Year

APPENDICES

[Note to Instructors and Students: See the anthology's companion website for further supplemental resources, including a selection of historical maps and an interactive timeline].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Broadview anthology of American literature.

ISBN:

9781039301573

9781554814640

9781554814657

1039301576

1554814642

1554814650

OCLC:

1285915661