The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationThe American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that have inspired, enraged, delighted, chastened, and comforted Americans in days gone by. Gathered here are the writings that illuminate -- with wit, eloquence, and sometimes sharp words -- significant aspects of national conciousness. They reflect the part that all Americans -- black and white, native born and immigrant, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, poor and wealthy -- have played in creating the nation's character. |
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... Slavery 188 HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET : An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America 192 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL : The Present Crisis 198 FREDERICK DOUGLASS : Independence Day Speech at Rochester 202 ABRAHAM LINCOLN : The House ...
... Slavery Society 243 244 250 252 254 256 257 259 261 263 265 266 267 AFTER THE CIVIL WAR FRANCIS MILES FINCH : The Blue and the Gray 275 SUSAN B. ANTHONY : Women's Right to Vote 277 The Ballad of John Henry 285 Home on the Range 287 I've ...
... slaves . For what notions can be entertained of slavery beyond that of suffering the greatest injuries and oppressions without the lib- erty of complaining ; or if they do , to be destroyed , body and estate , for so doing ? It is said ...
... slavery will bless and honor you as men who have baffled the attempt of tyranny , and , by an impartial and uncorrupt verdict , have laid a noble foundation for securing to ourselves , our posterity , and our neighbors that to which ...
... slavery - has , when- ever freedom has existed , been the cause of freedom . If it is this principle that has always prompted the princes and nobles of the earth by every species of fraud and violence to shake off all the limitations of ...