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Defining Documents in American History: The Underground Railroad

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Full Table of Contents


The Railroad Comes to Life in Words and Song


The Confessions of Nat Turner


Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself


From The Life of Josiah Henson


William and Ellen Craft


Narrative of Sojourner Truth


Sojourner Truth: “Ain’t I a Woman?”


Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself


Uncle Tom’s Cabin


Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup


Underground Railroad Map


“Follow the Drinking Gourd”


Wesley Harris, Alias Robert Jackson, and the Matterson Brothers


“Captain F. and the Mayor of Norfolk”


Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself


Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman


Title Page of The Underground Railroad


Inquiry and Response Concerning the Underground Railroad


The Beginnings: Slavery Enshrined and Abolished, Laying the Tracks for the Underground Railroad


A Minute against Slavery, From the Germantown Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends


“An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina”


Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes


Petition of Prince Hall and Others to the Massachusetts General Court


Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery


Slavery Clauses in the U.S. Constitution


Fugitive Slave Act of 1793


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


A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge


The 1800s and the Journey Underground


A Thanksgiving Sermon on Abolition of the Slave Trade


First Freedom’s Journal Editorial


Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World


State v. Mann


William Lloyd Garrison’s First Liberator Editorial


“Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention”


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


United States v. Amistad


Prigg v. Pennsylvania


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


First Editorial of the North Star


“Slavery As It Is”


Fugitive Slave Act of 1850


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


Fugitive Slave Ads


Appointment to a Slave Patrol


Boston Vigilance Committee Documents


Dred Scott v. Sandford


John Brown’s “Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States”


The Emancipation Proclamation


Volume 2



Full Table of Contents


What Followed: Optimism and Terror


Jefferson Davis on the Employment of Slaves


The Thirteenth Amendment


Valedictory Editorial of the Liberator


Ads for the Reunification of Former Slave Families


Examples of Black Codes in the South


Frederick Douglass on Reconstruction


Civil Rights Act of 1866


Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution


Civil Rights Act of 1875


United States v. Cruikshank


Sharecropping Contract


“Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women”


Plessy v. Ferguson


“Lynching: Our National Crime”


No Negroes Allowed


Elaine, Arkansas, Massacre Commemoration


“Redlining” Map of Syracuse, New York


“The Eruption of Tulsa”


The Klansman’s Manual


Brown v. Board of Education


Civil Rights Act of 1964


The Underground Railroad Above Ground


Remarks at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Public Dedication


Presidential Proclamation—Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument


Black Lives Matter


Ferguson, Missouri, Unrest


Opening Statement on Slavery Reparations before the House Judiciary Committee


Juneteenth National Independence Day Act—Remarks by President Joe Biden


Underground Railroad Stamp Series


Contemporary Parallels


Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000


Executive Order 13768: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States


Appendixes



Allies of the Railroad


Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography