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Defining Documents in American History: Slavery

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




Early Debates and Considerations




Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes




Defense of Slavery in Virginia




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




An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery




Debate in the Constitutional Convention over the Slave Trade




Slavery Clauses in the U.S. Constitution




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




Letters Exchanged between Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson




Haitian Declaration of Independence




An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade




A Thanksgiving Sermon on Abolition of the Slave Trade




Antebellum Activities




The Missouri Compromise




Walker’s Appeal




Address to the Free People of Colour of these United States




Prospectus for The Liberator




Calhoun on the Reception of Abolition Petitions




The Colored American




Colored Churches in This City




United States v. Amistad




The South in Danger




Fugitive Slave Act of 1793




Speeches For and Against the Compromise of 1850




What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?




Kansas-Nebraska Act




Speech Against the Kansas-Nebraska Act




The Dred Scott Decision




Lincoln’s House Divided Speech




The Lincoln-Douglas Debates




The Trial of John Brown




Speech to the Court that Sentenced Him to Death




Cooper Union Address




Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Constitution




Slave Stories




The Confessions of Nat Turner




Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839




Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave




Narrative of Sojourner Truth




Uncle Tom’s Cabin




Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup




Worlds of Woe and War




Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address




The Cornerstone of the Confederacy




Presidential Proclamations on Blockade and Commercial Trade




The Confiscation Acts




Lyons-Seward Treaty




Exchange of Letters Between Horace Greeley and Abraham Lincoln




There Has Been a Great Deal of Sickness in My Neighborhood




Reception to the Enlistment of Black Soldiers




The Emancipation Proclamation




“Men of Color, To Arms!”




War Department General Order 143




Jefferson Davis on the Employment of Slaves




General Lee on Black Confederate Soldiers




An Act to Increase the Military Force of the Confederate States




Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address




Facing the Future




The Thirteenth Amendment




General Sherman Interviews the Freedmen Ministers in Savannah




Special Field Order No. 15: Forty Acres and a Mule




Freedmen’s Bureau Bill




Ads for the Reunification of Former Slave Families




Appendixes




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography