Published: The Library of America, 2012
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xli, 963 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Contents:
“…Blind slave boy / Margaret Lucy Shands Bailey -- March to the battlefield / George W Clark -- Slave boy's wish -- Pic-nic at Dedham / Eliza Lee Follen -- Fugitive slave to the Christian / Elizur Wright Jr -- Anniversary of West
Indian emancipation / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Rallying cry for New England, against the annexation of Texas / James Russell Lowell -- from Narratives of the sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke / Lewis Garrard Clarke -- Anti-slavery alphabet / Hannah Townsend and Mary Townsend -- from A discourse delivered at the Plymouth church, Brooklyn, NY upon Thanksgiving Day / Henry Ward Beecher -- from A lecture delivered before the female anti-slavery society of Salem -- from Narrative of William W Brown, a fugitive slave, written by himself -- American slave-trade -- from Clotel; or, the president's daughter -- from The escape; or, a leap for freedom / William Wells Brown -- Sketch from Maryland life / Caroline W Healey Dall -- Childless mother / Joseph Evans Snodgrass -- from The young abolitionists; or, conversations on slavery / Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock Jones -- from The narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself / Henry Bibb -- from Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, written by himself / Henry "Box" Brown -- from The life of Josiah Henson, formerly a slave, now an inhabitant of Canada / Josiah Henson -- from A sermon to the medical students / Lucretia Mott -- Compromise / James Russell Lowell -- from Speech of Horace Mann of Massachusetts, on the subject of slavery in the territories, and the consequences of a dissolution of the union -- from Speech on the fugitive slave law / Horace Mann -- from The narrative of Sojourner Truth; a northern slave, emancipated from bodily servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 / Sojourner Truth -- from The great apostate / William Lloyd Garrison -- Impromptu stanzas, suggested by the working of the Fugitive Slave Act, as illustrated in the case of Rev Doctor Pennington / J M Eells -- from Uncle Tom's cabin -- Caste and Christ -- Sale of Little Harry -- Eliza crossing the river -- Legree striking Tom -- Two altars; or, Two pictures in one / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- from Uncle Tom's cabin; or, Life among the lowly, a domestic drama / George L Aiken -- What to the slave is the 4th of July? …”
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