Contents:
Foreword / Kevin Young
Introduction / Michelle D. Commander
SLAVE REBELLION AND INSURRECTION. David Horsmanden, from The New-York Conspiracy; or, A History of the Negro Plot with the Journal of the Proceedings Against the Conspirators at New York in the years 1741-2 (1810)
From Negro Plot: An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection Among a Portion of the Blacks of the City (1822)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, from Nat Turner's insurrection (1861)
Osborne P. Anderson, from A Voice from Harper's Ferry (1861)
BLACK ABOLITIONIST VOICES. David Walker, from Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America (1829)
Sarah Mapps Douglass, "Anti-Slavery Speech Before the Female Literary Society of Philadelphia," The Liberator (1832)
Maria Stewart, from Productions of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart Presented to the First African Baptist Church & Society, of the City of Boston (1835)
James Forten Jr., "An Address Delivered Before the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia, on the Evening of the 14th of April, 1836"
Lucy Staunton, "A Plea for the Oppressed (1850) --Mary Ann Shadd Cary, from A Plea for Emigration; or, Notes of Canada West (1852)
Martin Robinson Delany, from The Condition, Elevation Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, Politically Considered (1852)
James W. C. Pennington, from The Reasonableness of the Abolition of Slavery at the South, a Legitimate Inference from the Success of British Emancipation. An Address, Delivered at Hartford, Connecticut, on the First of August, 1856
Selections from the Anglo-African Magazine (Jan 1860)
H. Ford Douglas, "I Do Not Believe in the Antislavery of Abraham Lincoln," The Liberator (1860)
NARRATIVES OF SLAVERY AND FUGITIVE ESCAPES: James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, from A narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself (1772)
Henry Brown, from Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery, Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Feed Wide (1849)
Benjamin Drew, from A North-Side View of Slavery, The Refugee; or, The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, Related by Themselves (1856)
Thomas H. Jones, from Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave. Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (c. 1850s)
Eliza Potter, from A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life (1859)
Charles Ball, from Fifty Years in Chains; or, The Life of an American Slave (1860)
William Craft, from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (1860)
Hiram Mattison, from Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon; or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (1861)
Harper Twelvetrees, from The Story of the Life of John Anderson, The Fugitive Slave (1863)
Elizabeth Keckley, from Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (1868)
William Still, Selections from The Underground Railroad (1872)
Jacob Stroyer, from My Life in the South (1885)
Bethany Veney, from The Narrative of Bethany Veney, a Slave Woman (1889)
Octavia V. Rogers Albert, from The House of Bondage; or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves (1891)
Henry Clay Bruce, from The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man (1895)
ANTISLAVERY POETICS, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, AND DRAMA: Poetry and Music. Jupiter Mammon, "An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York" (1787); An Evening's Improvement, Shewing the Necessity of Beholding the Lamb of God. To Which is Added a Dialogue Entitled: The Kind Master and Dutiful Servant" (1790); and "An Essay on Slavery, with Justification to Divine Providence, That God Rules over All Things" (1786)
George Horton, "On Liberty and Slavery" in Poems by a Slave (1837)
John Greenleaf Whittier, selections from Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, Between the Years 1830 and 1838 (1837)
Edwin F. Hatfield, selections from Freedom's Lyre; or, Psalms, Hymns, and Sacred Sons for the Slave and His Friends (1840)
William Wells Brown, selections from The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings (1849)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, selections from Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1857)
Children's Literature. From The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1837s "Children's Department (1837)
Eliza Lee Follen, from The Liberty Cap (1846)
Hannah Townsend and Mary Townsend, from The Anti-Slavery Alphabet (1847)
Jane Elizabeth Jones, from The Young Abolitionists; or, Conversations on Slavery (1848)
Kate Barclay, from Minnie May; with Other Rhymes and Stories (1856)
Anonymous, Julia Colman, and Matilda G. Thompson, from The Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing a Few Words About American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life (1859)
(Mrs.) J. D. Chaplin, from Cain and Patsy; the Gospel Preached to the Poor. A Story of Slave Life (1860)
Oliver Optic, from Watch and Wait; or, The Young Fugitives, a Story for Young People (1864)
William Wells Brown, from The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom (1858)
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, from Peculiar Sam; or, The Underground Railroad (1878)
THE DAWN OF FREEDOM: Frederick Douglass, from "The Mission of the War" (1864)
Charlotte Forten, from Life on the Sea Islands (1864)
Susie King Taylor, from Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (1902)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, "We Are All Bound UP Together" (1866) Henry McNeal Turner, "I Claim the Rights of a Man: (1868)
Congressman Richard Harvey Cain, from "All We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights" (1874)
Lucy E. Parsons, "I Am an Anarchist" (1886)
Lost Friends Advertisements from the Southwestern Christian Advocate (18802-1890s)
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