Publishing: Growth and Goals. Religion and Common Culture. The Debates over Racism and Slavery. The Debate over Women''s "Sphere". The Many Cultures of America. The Rise of Industry. Individualism and/vs. Community.
Native America. Red Jacket (Seneca) (c. 1758-1830). On the Religion of the White Man and the Red. Mary Jemison (Deh-he-wä-mis) (1743-1833) from Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison. Preface. Introduction.
Chapter I. Chapter II. Chapter III. Chapter IV. Chapter VI. Chapter X. Chapter XVI. Black Hawk (Makataimeshekiakiak; Sauk) (1767-1838) from Life of Black Hawk or ma-ne-se-no oke-maut wap-pi ma-quai.
Seattle (Duwamish) (1786-1866). Speech of Chief Seattle. John Wannuaucon Quinney (Mahican) (1797-1855). Quinney''s Speech. George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh; Ojibwa) (1818-1869). from The Life of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh. John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee) (1827-1867). Oppression of Digger Indians.
The Atlantic Cable. The Stolen White Girl. A Scene Along the Rio de las Plumas. SPANISH AMERICAS. Tales from the Hispanic Southwest. La comadre Sebastiana/Do a Sebastiana. Los tres hermanos (The Three Brothers). El obispo (The New Bishop).
El indito de las cien vacas (The Indian and the Hundred Cows). La Llorona. Legend of La Llorona. Carmen Tafolla xxxx-xxxx. La Llorona, Crying Lady of the Creekbeds, 483 Years Old, and Aging. Narratives from the Mexican and Early American Southwest. Pio Pico (1801-1894). from Historical Narrative.
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1808-1890). from Recuerdos historicos y personales tocante a la alta California. Alfred Robinson (1806-1895). from Life in California. Valentin de Foronda (xxxx-xxxx). Letter concerning.What a Prince Should Do with His Colonies Held at a Great Distance. Jose Maria Heredia (xxxx-xxxx).
En una tempestad: Oda al huracán (Spanish). In a Tempest: An Ode to the Hurricane (English). Anonymous. Excerpt from Xicotenctl. Jose Maria Tornel (xxxx-xxxx). Tejas y los Estandos-Unidos de America en Sus Relaciones con la Republica Mexicana. Vicente Perez Rosales (xxxx-xxxx). from Times Gone By.
EXPANSION AND THE WAR AGAINST MEXICO. John L O''Sullivan or Jane McManus Storm (xxxx-xxxx). Annexation. James Russell Lowell (xxxx-xxxx). from Biglow Papers. Frederick Douglass (xxxx-xxxx). The War with Mexico, North Star Editorial. U.
S. Congress and United Mexican States. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. IN FOCUS: CUBA IN THE ANTEBELLUM U.S. IMAGINATION. Martin Delany (xxxx-xxxx). from Blake, or The Huts of America.
Lucy Holcombe Pickens (xxxx-xxxx). from The Free Flag of Cuba. Juan Clemente Zenea (xxxx-xxxx). El filibuster. Miguel Tolon (xxxx-xxxx). El Segundo Aniversario de La Verdad. THE CULTURES OF NEW ENGLAND. Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865).
The Suttee. Death of an Infant. To the First Slave Ship. Remonstrance of the Creek Indians against Being Removed from Their Own Territory. The Indian''s Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers. Indian Names. Niagara. To a Shred of Linen.
The Indian Summer. Fallen Forests. William Apess (Pequot) (1798-?). An Indian''s Looking-Glass for the White Man. from Eulogy on King Philip. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Nature. Divinity School Address.
The American Scholar. Self-Reliance. The Poet. Experience. Concord Hymn. The Rhodora. The Snow-Storm. Compensation.
Hamatreya. Brahma. Days. Terminus. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). The Hunters of Men. The Farewell. Massachusetts to Virginia.
At Port Royal. Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850). To [Sophia Ripley?]. from Woman in the Nineteenth Century. from Things and Thoughts in Europe: Foreign Correspondence of the Tribune. Dispatch 17. Dispatch 18. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862).
Resistance to Civil Government. from Walden. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For. Higher Laws. Spring Conclusion. A Plea for Captain John Brown. Walking. IN FOCUS: RACE AND SLAVERY.
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848). from Memoirs of John Quincy Adams. Thomas Roderick Dew (1802-1846). An Argument Upholding Slavery. Angela Davis (b. 1944). from Reflections on the Black Woman''s Role in the Community of Slaves. Levi Coffin (1798-1877).
from Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad. Thornton Stringfellow (1788-1869). from A Brief Examination of Scripture Testimony on the Institution of Slavery. Leon Litwack (b. 1929). from North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860. U.S.
Congress. from Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Martin R. Delaney (1812-1885) and Frederick Douglass (1818-1895). An Exchange. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney (1777-1864). from Dred Scott v.
Sandford (1857). John Brown (1800-1859). from John Brown''s Last Speech and Letters. Mortimer Thomson (1831-1875). Great Auction Sales of Slaves at Savannah, Georgia. Race, Slavery, and the Invention of the "South". David Walker (1785-1830). from Appeal .
to the Coloured Citizens of the World (Third edition, 1829). William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879). Editorial from the First Issue of The Liberator. Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention. Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880). from Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Preface. Chapter VIII, Prejudices against People of Color .
from Letters from New York. 14 [17], [Homelessness]. 20 [27], [Birds]. 33, [Antiabolitionist mobs]. 34 [50, 51], [Women''s Rights]. The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act: An Appeal to the Legislators of Massachusetts. Angelina Grimke (1805-1879). from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South.
Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882). An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America, Buffalo, N.Y., 1843. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895). from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Preface [William Lloyd Garrison]. Letter from Wendell Phillips, Esq.
Chapters I-XI. Appendix. A Parody. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? The Present. The Internal Slave Trade. Religious Liberty. The Church Responsible. Religion in England and Religion in America.
The Constitution. The Heroic Slave Nancy Gardner Prince (1799-c. 1859?) from A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince. Caroline Lee Hentz (1800-1856). from The Planter''s Northern Bride. George Fitzhugh (1804-1881). from Sociology for the South.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911). The Slave Mother. The Tennessee Hero. Free Labor. An Appeal to the American People. The Colored People in America. Speech: On the Twenty-Fourth Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society. The Two Offers.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911). from Nat Turner''s Insurrection. Letter to Mrs. Higginson on Emily Dickinson. Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897). from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Chapter I, Childhood. Chapter VI, The Jealous Mistress.
Chapter X, A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl''s Life. Chapter XVI, Scenes at the Plantation. Chapter XXI, The Loophole of Retreat. Chapter XLI, Free at Last. Harriet Jacobs to Ednah Dow Cheney, April 25, 1867. Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-1886). from Mary Chesnut''s Civil War. March 18, 1861.
August 26, 1861. October 13, 1861. October 20, 1861. January 16, 1865. January 17, 1865. Wendell Phillips (1811-1884). from Toussaint L''Ouverture. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865).
Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Second Inaugural Address. In Focus: The Cherokee Nation and the Anglo Nation. Anonymous. from Cherokee Vision of Elohi. Cherokee Women. Petition, May 2, 1817. Petition, June 30, 1818.
Petition, October 17, 1821 [1831?]. John Ridge (Cherokee) (c. 1802-1939). Letter to Albert Gallatin (1826). Elias Boudinot (Cherokee) (c. 1802-1839). An Address to the Whites (1826). Cherokee Nation.
from Cherokee Nation Constitution. Sequoyah. Image of the syllabary, or Phoenix with dual translation. Georgia State Assembly. Laws Extending Jurisdiction over the Cherokees. Andrew Jackson (1767-1845). On Indian Removal: The President''s Message to Congress. U.
S. Congress. from Indian Removal Act (1830). Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835). from Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831). from Worcester v. Georgia (1832).
John Ross (Cherokee) (1790-1866). Letter to Lewis Cass, February 14, 1833. Letter to Andrew Jackson, March 28, 1834. Letter to a Friend, 1836. Annual Address. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Letter to Martin Van Buren, President of the United States, 1838. Literature and the "Woman Question".
Sarah Moore Grimke (1792-1873). from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman. Letter VIII, The Condition of Women in the United States. Letter XV, Man Equally Guilty with Woman in the Fall. Angelina Grimke (1805-1879). from Letters to Catharine Beecher. Letter XI. Letter XII, Human Rights Not Founded on Sex.
Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883). Reminiscences by Frances D. Gage of Sojourner Truth, for May 28-29, 1851. Sojourner Truth''s Speech at the Akron, Ohio, Women''s Rights Meeting. Speech at New York City Convention. Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association. Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton) (1811-1872).
Hints to Young Wives. from Fern Leaves, 1st Series. Thanksgiving Story. from Fern Leaves, 2nd Series. Soliloquy of a Housemaid. Critics. Mrs. Adolphus Smith Sporting the "Blue Stocking".
Male Criticism on Ladies'' Books. A Law More Nice Than Just. Independence. The Working-Girls of New York. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902). from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences. Declaration of Sentiments. The Development of Narrative.
In Focus: Humor of the Old Southwest. Davy Crockett (1786-1836). from The Crockett Almanacs. Sunrise in His Pocket. A Pretty Predicament. Crockett''s Daughters. Mike Fink (1770?-1823?). from The Crockett Almanacs.
Mike Fink''s Brag. Mike Fink Trying to Scare Mrs. Crockett. Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer, How She Cooked Injuns. The Death of Mike Fink (recorded by Joseph M. Field). Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870). The Horse Swap.
George Washington Harris (1814-1869). Mrs. Yardley''s Quiltin.