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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