"Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, this anthology charts America's long, heroic confrontation with its most poisonous evil."--Publisher description.
Publisher:New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2012]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Include bibliographical references (pages 897-945) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
from The refugee: or the narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada / Harry Thomas -- from The refugee: or the narratives of slaves in Canada / Harriet Tubman -- from Autobiography of a female slave / Martha Griffith Browne -- from The quadroon; or, a lover's adventures in Louisiana / Thomas Mayne Reid -- from The crime against Kansas / Charles Sumner -- from Neighbor Jackwood / John T Trowbridge -- from The curse entailed / Harriet Hamline Bigelow -- from Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman / Austin Steward -- Lucy; or, The slave girl of Kentucky / Anonymous -- from the Rev J W Loguen, as a slave and as a freeman: a narrative of real life / Jermain Wesley Loguen -- Speech to the court -- Letter to Mrs George L Stearns, November 29, 1859 / John Brown -- Speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- With a rose, that bloomed on the day of John Brown's martyrdom -- Hour / Louisa May Alcott -- Slave's appeal / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- from The barbarism of slavery / Charles Sumner -- Mannahatta / Walt Whitman -- Battle hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe -- from Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Ann Jacobs -- from Blake: or the huts of America / Martin R Delany -- Prayer of twenty millions / Horace Greeley -- Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln -- No greater joy than to see these children walking in the anti-slavery path / Lucretia Mott -- Color-caste-denomination / Emily Dickinson -- from Cudjo's cave / John T Trowbridge -- Laus Deo / John Greenleaf Whittier -- from A memorial discourse / Henry Highland Garnet -- Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- Death of Lincoln / William Cullen Bryant -- from Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln / Charles Sumner -- Thirteenth Amendment to the U S Constitution / Lyman Trumbull et al -- Chronology -- Note on the illustrations -- Note on the texts -- Notes -- Index.
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