Contents
Volume 1 Publisher’s Note ...... ix Editor’s Introduction ...... xi Contributors ...... xiii
Early Debates and Considerations
Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes ...... 3 Defense of Slavery in Virginia ...... 15 Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court ...... 19 An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery ...... 29 Debate in the Constitutional Convention over the Slave Trade ...... 39 Slavery Clauses in the U.S. Constitution ...... 45 An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice ...... 63 Letters Exchanged between Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson ...... 70 Haitian Declaration of Independence ...... 77 An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade ...... 85 A Thanksgiving Sermon on Abolition of the Slave Trade ...... 93
Antebellum Activities
The Missouri Compromise ...... 105 Walker’s Appeal ...... 111 Address to the Free People of Colour of these United States ...... 119 Prospectus for The Liberator ...... 124 Calhoun on the Reception of Abolition Petitions ...... 129 The Colored American ...... 135 Colored Churches in This City ...... 144 United States v. Amistad ...... 151 The South in Danger ...... 165 Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 ...... 173 Speeches For and Against the Compromise of 1850 ...... 183 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? ...... 205
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Kansas-Nebraska Act ...... 210 Speech Against the Kansas-Nebraska Act ...... 225 The Dred Scott Decision ...... 250 Lincoln’s House Divided Speech ...... 266 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates ...... 274 The Trial of John Brown ...... 303 Speech to the Court that Sentenced Him to Death ...... 311 Cooper Union Address ...... 319 Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Constitution ...... 331
Volume 2
Slave Stories
The Confessions of Nat Turner ...... 345 Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839 ...... 359 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave ...... 365 Narrative of Sojourner Truth ...... 377 Uncle Tom’s Cabin ...... 387 Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup ...... 397
Worlds of Woe and War
Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address ...... 409 The Cornerstone of the Confederacy ...... 419 Presidential Proclamations on Blockade and Commercial Trade ...... 429 The Confi scation Acts ...... 437 Lyons-Seward Treaty ...... 446 Exchange of Letters Between Horace Greeley and Abraham Lincoln ...... 457 There Has Been a Great Deal of Sickness in My Neighborhood ...... 466 Reception to the Enlistment of Black Soldiers ...... 475 The Emancipation Proclamation ...... 485 “Men of Color, To Arms!” ...... 495 War Department General Order 143 ...... 503 Jefferson Davis on the Employment of Slaves ...... 509
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General Lee on Black Confederate Soldiers ...... 523 An Act to Increase the Military Force of the Confederate States ...... 531 Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address ...... 539
Facing the Future
The Thirteenth Amendment ...... 549 General Sherman Interviews the Freedmen Ministers in Savannah ...... 553 Special Field Order No. 15: Forty Acres and a Mule ...... 563 Freedmen’s Bureau Bill ...... 571 Ads for the Reunifi cation of Former Slave Families ...... 581
Appendixes
Chronological List ...... 591 Web Resources ...... 593 Bibliography ...... 595 Index ...... 609
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