Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American
Slave,
1845.
Johnson, James Weldon. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, 1912.
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery.
Shorter Histories:
Curry, Richard Orr. The Abolitionists: Reformers or Fanatics?
DeBoer, Clara Merritt. Be Jubilant My Feet: African American Abolitionists
in the
American Missionary Association, 1839-1861.
Hawkins, Hugh, ed. The Abolitionists: Immediatism and the Question of Means.
Kerr, Andrea M. Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality. New Brunswick: Rutgers
UP,
1992. HQ1413 .S73 K47
Lader, Lawrence E. The Bold Brahmins; New England's War Against Slavery, 1831-
1863. NY, Dutton, 1961. E449 .L12
Nye, Russel Blaine. William Lloyd Garrison and the H
Quarles, Benjamin. Black Abolitionists (sound recording - use as a supplement)
Thomas, John L. Slavery Attacked: The Abolitionist Crusade.
Slave Narratives:
Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.
Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself.
Poetry:
Hammon, Jupiter. "An Evening Thought," "An Address to Miss
Phillis
Wheatly."
Horton, George Moses. "The Slave's Complaint," "On Liberty and Slavery."2
Wheatly, Phillis. "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "To
the University
of Cambridge," "To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth."2
Novels:
Brown, William Wells. Clotelle: At Tale of the Southern States.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Wilson, Harriet E. Adams. Our Nig: Or, Sketches From the Life of a Free Black.
Essays:
Child, Lydia Maria. "An appeal in favor of Americans called Africans."
NY: Arno Press,
1968. E449 C532 ; "The Freedmen's Book." NY: Arno Press, 1968. E185.86
C46
Delayny, Martin R. "The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny
of the Colored
People of the United States." 2
Hammon, Jupiter. "A Winter Piece."2
Garnet, Henry Highland. An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America. 2
Garrison, William Lloyd. "To the Public," Liberator, January 1,
1831.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2928t.html (text); "Editorial Regarding
David
Walker's Appeal," Liberator, January 8, 1831.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2926t.html (text).
Grimke, Charlotte Forten. "The Journal of Charlotte Forten." 2
Plaindealer (New York), "The Blessings of Slavery," 25 February,
1837
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/plai_a60htm
Purvis, Robert. "Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens . . . ." 2
Thoreau, Henry David. "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Resistance to Civil Government."
Walker, David. David Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles.2
Orators:
Garnet, Henry Highland. "An address to the Slaves of the United State
of America."2
Phillips, Wendell. The Murder of Lovejoy," December 8, 1837.
http://www.libertystory.net/LSDOCPHILLIPSLOVEJOY.htm (text).
Redman, Sarah Parker. "The Negroes in the United States of America."2
Stewart, Maria W. "Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality,"
"Lecture, Delivered at
the Franklin Hall, Boston, September 21, 1832."2
Truth, Sojourner. "Speech at Akron Convention, May 28-29, 1851."2
Wright, Theodore S. "The Progress of the Antislavery Cause."2
Sermons:
Allen, Richard. An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves and Approve the Practice.2
Jones, Absalom. A Thanksgiving Sermon Preached January 1, 1808.2
Marrant, John. A Sermon Preached on the 24th Day of June 1789.2
Letters:
Banneker, Benjamin. Letter to Thomas Jefferson.
Child, Lydia Maria. Letters from New York (while editor of The National Anti-Slavery
Standard, a Garrisonian newspaper
Grimke, Charolotte L. Forten. "Interesting Letter from Miss Charlotte
L. Forten"
Merrill, Walter M., ed. The letters of William Lloyd Garrison. Cambridge:
Harvard UP,
1971- . E449 .G245 v.1-2.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Letter to Willaim Lloyd Garrison,"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2926t.html (text).
Speeches:
Go to this Internet site. Choose any speech written between 1840 and 1865
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/ review "Chronologically."
Some examples are:
Douglass, Frederick - "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
5 July, 1852
- "A Plea for Free Speech in Boston," 1860
Whittier, John G. "American Anti-Slavery Society Anniversaries.
Plaindealer (New York) - "The Blessings of Slavery," 25 February,
1837
The following web sites have been invaluable in constructing this list:
http://www.bartleby.com/226/index.html and http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html
. My
enduring gratitude to Paul Rueben at Cal State University, Stanislaus and
the publishers of The Cambridge
History of English and American Literature.
Particia Liggins Hill, ed. Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the
African American
Tradition.
