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Defining Documents in American History: Dissent and Protest

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




From Colonies to Nation




Excerpts from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Trial against Anne Hutchinson




Declaration of Protestant Subjects in Maryland




The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved




Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress




Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania




Boston Non-Importation Agreement




Samuel Adams Writing as Candidus




Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One




Boston Massacre Oration




“Liberty or Death” Speech




Common Sense




Petition against the Excise Tax by Inhabitants of Western Pennsylvania




Slavery and Abolition




A Minute against Slavery, From the Germantown Monthly Meeting, Addressed to the Monthly Meeting in Dublin




An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina




Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court




Petition to the Assembly of Pennsylvania against the Slave Trade




An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice




Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World




The Confessions of Nat Turner




Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention




Prejudices against People of Color, and Our Duties in Relation to This Subject




“An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America”




“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”




The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, Politically Considered




Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup




Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States




A Voice from Harper’s Ferry




Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl




“Under the Flag”




Valedictory Editorial of the Liberator




Sectional Conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction




South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification




Speech Opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act




South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession




Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate




Speech on His Refusal to Take the Oath of Loyalty to the Confederacy




“Cornerstone Speech”




Speech on His Expulsion from the Georgia Legislature




“All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights”




Preface to The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government




Native American Dissent




Appeal to Choctaws and Chickasaws




Memorial to Congress




Battle of Sand Creek: Editorials and Congressional Testimony




Treaty of Fort Laramie




Dawes Severalty Act




Wounded Knee Massacre: Statements and Eyewitness Accounts




Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz: Proclamation




Summary of Letter Requesting Further Review of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)




African-American Civil Rights




Atlanta Exposition Address




Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles




“Lynching: Our National Crime”




“Agitation”




William Monroe Trotter’s Protest to Woodrow Wilson




“The Eruption of Tulsa”




“U.S. Department of (White) Justice”




“A Black Inventory of the New Deal”




Call to Negro America to March on Washington




An Appeal to the World




Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Statement of Purpose




Letter from Birmingham Jail




“I Have a Dream”




“Message to the Grass Roots”




“The Ballot or the Bullet”




What We Want




“Black Power”




“What We Want, What We Believe”




Women’s Rights




Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments




Lecture on Constitutional Equality




“Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?”




“The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future”




“Why Women Should Vote”




Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee




The SCUM Manifesto




Women’s March on Washington




Political and Social Protest




Ten Days in a Mad-House




How the Other Half Lives




“The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements”




Editorial on the Pullman Strike




“Liberty”




The “Cross of Gold” Speech




Speech Opposing the League of Nations




Auto Workers Strike




“Share Our Wealth” Address




Southern Manifesto




The Port Huron Statement




Gay Power Comes To Sheridan Square




Steal This Book




Commonwealth Address




Anti-War Activism




Speech against Conscription and War




Speech Opposing War with Germany




Antiwar Speech




“Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”




Testimony of the Vietnam Veterans against the War




“The Emperor Has No Clothes” Speech




Appendixes




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography




Photo Credits