Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: COLUMBUS AND LAS CASAS The Diario of Christopher Columbus (October 11-15, 1492) Bartolomé de Las Casas, Two Readings on the Legacy of Columbus (1542 and 1550) Bartolomé de Las Casas, The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account (1542) Bartolomé de Las Casas, In Defense of the Indians (1550) Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire (1982) CHAPTER 2: THE FIRST SLAVES Three Documents on Slave Revolts (1720 to 1793) Anonymous Letter to Mr. Boone in London (June 24, 1720) Letter from Petersburg, Virginia (May 17, 1792) Secret Keeper Richmond (Unknown) to Secret Keeper Norfolk (Unknown) (1793) Four Petitions Against Slavery (1773 to 1777) "Felix" (Unknown) Slave Petition for Freedom (January 6, 1773) Peter Bestes and Other Slaves Petition for Freedom (April 20, 1773) "Petition of a Grate Number of Blackes" to Thomas Gage (May 25, 1774) "Petition of a Great Number of Negroes" to the Massachusetts House of Representatives (January 13, 1777) Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (August 19, 1791) CHAPTER 3: SERVITUDE AND REBELLION Richard Frethorne on Indentured Servitude (March 20-April 3, 1623) A True Narrative of the Rise, Progresse, and Cessation of the Late Rebellion in Virginia, Most Humbly and Impartially Reported by His Majestyes Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Affaires of the Said Colony (1677) Proclamation of the New Hampshire Legislature on the Mast Tree Riot (1734) Letter Written by William Shirley to the Lords of Trade about the Knowles Riot (December 1, 1747) Gottlieb Mittelberger, Gottlieb Mittelberger''s Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750 and Return to Germany In the Year 1754 (1754) Account of the New York Tenant Riots (July 14, 1766) CHAPTER 4: PREPARING THE REVOLUTION Thomas Hutchinson Recounts the Reaction to the Stamp Act in Boston (1765) Samuel Drowne''s Testimony on the Boston Massacre (March 16, 1770) George Hewes Recalls the Boston Tea Party (1834) New York Mechanics Declaration of Independence (May 29, 1776) Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776) CHAPTER 5: HALF A REVOLUTION Joseph Clarke''s Letter about the Rebellion in Springfield (August 30, 1774) Joseph Plumb Martin, A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier (1830) Samuel Dewees Recounts the Suppression of Insubordination in the Continental Army after the Mutinies of 1781 (1844) Henry Knox, Letter to George Washington (October 23, 1786) "Publius" (James Madison), Federalist No. 10 (November 23, 1787) CHAPTER 6: THE EARLY WOMEN''S MOVEMENT Maria Stewart, "An Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston" (February 27, 1833) Angelina Grimké Weld''s Speech at Pennsylvania Hall (May 17, 1838) Harriet Hanson Robinson, "Characteristics of the Early Factory Girls" (1898) S. Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions," Seneca Falls Convention (July 19, 1848) Sojourner Truth, "Ain''t I a Woman?" (1851 Marriage Protest of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell (May 1, 1855) Susan B. Anthony Addresses Judge Ward Hunt in The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony (June 19, 1873) CHAPTER 7: INDIAN REMOVAL Tecumseh''s Speech to the Osages (Winter 1811-12) Two Documents on the Cherokee Removal (1829 and 1830) Cherokee Nation, "Memorial of the Cherokee Indians" (December 1829) Lewis Ross et al.

, Address of the Committee and Council of the Cherokee Nation, in General Council Convened, to the People of the United States (July 17, 1830) Black Hawk''s Surrender Speech (1832) John G. Burnett, "The Cherokee Removal Through the Eyes of a Private Soldier" (December 11, 1890) Two Statements by Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé (1877 and 1879) Chief Joseph''s Surrender (October 5, 1877) Chief Joseph Recounts His Trip to Washington, D.C. (1879) Black Elk, "The End of the Dream" (1932) CHAPTER 8: THE WAR ON MEXICO The Diary of Colonel Ethan Allen Hitchcock (June 30, 1845-March 26, 1846) Miguel Barragan, Dispatch on Texas Colonists (October 31, 1835) Juan Soto, Desertion Handbill (June 6, 1847) Frederick Douglass, Address to the New England Convention (May 31, 1849) North Star Editorial, "The War with Mexico" (January 21, 1848) Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849) CHAPTER 9: SLAVERY AND DEFIANCE David Walker''s Appeal (1830) Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself (1861) James Norcom''s Runaway Slave Newspaper Advertisement for Harriet Jacobs (June 30, 1835) James R. Bradley, Letter to Lydia Maria Child (June 3, 1834) Reverend Theodore Parker, Speech of Theodore Parker at the Faneuil Hall Meeting (May 26, 1854) Two Letters from Slaves to Their Former Masters (1844 to 1860) Henry Bibb, Letter to William Gatewood (March 23, 1844) Jermain Wesley Loguen, Letter to Sarah Logue (March 28, 1860) Frederick Douglass, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" (July 5, 1852) John Brown, "John Brown''s Last Speech" (November 2, 1859) Osborne P. Anderson, A Voice from Harper''s Ferry (1861) Martin Delany''s Advice to Former Slaves (July 23, 1865) Henry McNeal Turner, "On the Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats in the Georgia Legislature" (September 3, 1868) CHAPTER 10: CIVIL WAR AND CLASS CONFLICT An Eyewitness Account of the Flour Riot in New York (February 1837) Hinton Rowan Helper, The Impending Crisis of the South (1857) "Mechanic" (Unknown), "Voting by Classes" (October 13, 1863) Joel Tyler Headley, The Great Riots of New York (1873) Four Documents on Disaffection in the South During the Civil War (1864 to 1865) Report on a Bread Riot in Savannah, Georgia (April 1864) "Exempt" (Unknown), "To Go, Or Not to Go" (June 28, 1864) O.G.

G. (Unknown), Letter to the Editor (February 17, 1865) Columbus Sun, "The Class That Suffer" (February 17, 1865) J. A. Dacus, Annals of the Great Strikes in the United States (1877) CHAPTER 11: STRIKERS AND POPULISTS IN THE GILDED AGE Henry George, "The Crime of Poverty" (April 1, 1885) August Spies, "Address of August Spies" (October 7, 1886) Anonymous, "Red-Handed Murder: Negroes Wantonly Killed at Thibodaux, La." (November 26, 1887) Reverend Ernest Lyon et al., Open Letter from the New Orleans Mass Meeting (August 22, 1888) Two Speeches by Mary Elizabeth Lease (circa 1890) "Wall Street Owns the Country" (circa 1890) Speech to the Women''s Christian Temperance Union (1890) The Omaha Platform of the People''s Party of America (1892) Reverend J. L. Moore on the Colored Farmers'' Alliance (March 7, 1891) Ida B.

Wells-Barnett, "Lynch Law" (1893) Statement from the Pullman Strikers (June 15, 1894) Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) CHAPTER 12: THE EXPANSION OF THE EMPIRE Calixto Garcia''s Letter to General William R. Shafter (July 17, 1898) Three Documents on African-American Opposition to Empire (1898 to 1899) Lewis H. Douglass on Black Opposition to McKinley (November 17, 1899 Missionary Department of the Atlanta, Georgia, A.M.E. Church, "The Negro Should Not Enter the Army" (May 1, 1899) I. D. Barnett et al.

, Open Letter to President McKinley by Colored People of Massachusetts (October 3, 1899) Samuel Clemens, "Comments on the Moro Massacre" (March 12, 1906) Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket (1935) CHAPTER 13: SOCIALISTS AND WOBBLIES Mother Jones, "Agitation: The Greatest Factor for Progress" (March 24, 1903) Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906) W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903) Emma Goldman, "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty" (1908).