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Title:
Lift every voice : African American oratory, 1787-1900
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Philip S. Foner and Robert James Branham.
Publication Information:
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1998.
Physical Description:
xv, 925 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780817309060

9780817308483
Abstract:
Contains speeches on slavery, civil rights, segregation, Afro-American women, education, and other topics.

Contains speeches by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, and others.

Contains primary source material.
Reading Level:
1370 L Lexile
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
1. I Speak to Those Who Are in Slavery / Cyrus Bustill -- 2. You Stand on the Level with the Greatest Kings on Earth / John Marrant -- 3. A Charge Delivered to the Brethren of the African Lodge / Prince Hall -- 4. Pray God Give Us the Strength to Bear Up Under All Our Troubles / Prince Hall -- 5. Address to the People of Color / Abraham Johnstone -- 6. Eulogy for Washington / Richard Allen -- 7. Universal Salvation / Lemuel Haynes -- 8. Abolition of the Slave Trade / Peter Williams, Jr. -- 9. A Thanksgiving Sermon / Absalom Jones -- 10. Mutual Interest, Mutual Benefit, and Mutual Relief / William Hamilton -- 11. A Sermon Preached on the Funeral Occasion of Mary Henery / George White -- 12. O! Africa / William Hamilton -- 13. Valedictory Address / Margaret Odell -- 14. The Condition and Prospects of Haiti / John Browne Russwurm -- 15. Termination of Slavery / Austin Steward -- 16. The Necessity of a General Union Among Us / David Walker -- 17. Slavery and Colonization / Peter Williams, Jr. -- 18. The Cause of the Slave Became My Own / Sarah M. Douglass -- 19. It Is Time for Us to Be Up and Doing / Peter Osborne -- 20. Why Sit Ye Here and Die? / Maria W. Stewart -- 21. Let Us Alone / Nathaniel Paul -- 22. What If I Am a Woman? / Maria W. Stewart -- 23. Eulogy on William Wilberforce / William Whipper -- 24. The Slavery of Intemperance / William Whipper -- 25. Why a Convention Is Necessary / William Hamilton -- 26. Put On the Armour of Righteousness / James Forten, Jr. -- 27. The Slave Has a Friend in Heaven, Though He May Have None Here / Theodore S. Wright -- 28. On the Improvement of the Mind / Elizabeth Jennings -- 29. Prejudice Against the Colored Man / Theodore S. Wright -- 30. Slavery Brutalizes Man / Daniel A. Payne -- 31. We Meet the Monster Prejudice Every Where / Clarissa C. Lawrence -- 32. Slavery Presses Down upon the Free People of Color / Andrew Harris -- 33. Let Us Do Justice to an Unfortunate People / Thomas Paul -- 34. The Rights of Colored Citizens in Traveling / Charles Lenox Remond -- 35. We Must Assert Our Rightful Claims and Plead Our Own Cause / Samuel H. Davis -- 36. An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet -- 37. For the Dissolution of the Union / Charles Lenox Remond -- 38. I Am Free from American Slavery / Lewis Richardson -- 39. Under the Stars and Stripes / William Wells Brown -- 40. I Have No Constitution, and No Country / William Wells Brown -- 41. The Fugitive Slave Bill / Samuel Ringgold Ward -- 42. A Plea for the Oppressed / Lucy Stanton -- 43. I Won't Obey the Fugitive Slave Law / Jermain Wesley Loguen -- 44. Ar'n't I a Woman? / Sojourner Truth -- 45. Orators and Oratory / William G. Allen -- 46. What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass -- 47. Snakes and Geese / Sojourner Truth -- 48. I Set Out to Escape from Slavery / Stephen Pembroke -- 49. There Is No Full Enjoyment of Freedom for Anyone in This Country / John Mercer Langston -- 50. The Triumph of Equal School Rights in Boston / William C. Nell -- 51. What, to the Toiling Millions There, Is This Boasted Liberty? / Sara G. Stanley -- 52. The Negro Race, Self-Government, and the Haitian Revolution / James T. Holly -- 53. Liberty for Slaves / Frances Ellen Watkins -- 54. If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress / Frederick Douglass -- 55. I Will Sink or Swim with My Race / John S. Rock -- 56. Break Every Yoke and Let the Oppressed Go Free / Mary Ann Shadd -- 57. Should Colored Men Be Subject to the Penalties of the Fugitive Slave Law? / Charles H. Langston -- 58. Why Slavery Is Still Rampant / Sarah Parker Remond -- 59. The American Government and the Negro / Robert Purvis -- 60. I Do Not Believe in the Antislavery of Abraham Lincoln / H. Ford Douglas -- 61. A Plea for Free Speech / Frederick Douglass -- 62. Let Us Take Up the Sword / Alfred M. Green -- 63. What If the Slaves Are Emancipated? / John S. Rock -- 64. We Ask for Our Rights / John S. Rock -- 65. Lincoln's Colonization Proposal Is Anti-Christian / Isaiah C. Wears -- 66. The Negroes in the United States of America / Sarah Parker Remond -- 67. Freedom's Joyful Day / Jonathan C. Gibbs -- 68. Address to the Youth / Sarah J. Woodson -- 69. The Moral and Social Aspect of Africa / Martin Robinson Delany -- 70. The Good Time Is at Hand / Robert Purvis -- 71. The Position and Duties of the Colored People / J.W.C. Pennington -- 72. A Tribute to a Fallen Black Soldier / J. Stanley -- 73. The Mission of the War / Frederick Douglass -- 74. Give Us Equal Pay and We Will Go to War / J.P. Campbell -- 75. Every Man Should Stand Equal Before the Law / Arnold Bertonneau -- 76. Let the Monster Perish / Henry Highland Garnet -- 77. Colored Men Standing in the Way of Their Own Race / James Lynch -- 78. Advice to Ex-Slaves / Martin Robinson Delany -- 79. An Appeal for Aid to the Freedmen / J. Sella Martin -- 80. Deliver Us from Such a Moses / Lewis Hayden -- 81. We Are All Bound Up Together / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- 82. These Are Revolutionary Times / E.J. Adams -- 83. Equal Rights for All, Three Speeches / Sojourner Truth -- 84. To My White Fellow Citizens / B.K. Sampson -- 85. Break Up the Plantation System / Francis L. Cardozo -- 86. Justice Should Recognize No Color / William H. Grey -- 87. I Claim the Rights of a Man / Henry McNeal Turner -- 88. Finish the Good Work of Uniting Colored and White Workingmen / Isaac Myers -- 89. Composite Nation / Frederick Douglass -- 90. Then I Began to Live / Sojourner Truth -- 91. Abolish Separate Schools / Hiram R. Revels -- 92. The Ku Klux of the North / Isaiah C. Wears -- 93. The Right of Women to Vote / Mary Ann Shadd Cary -- 94. A Plea in Behalf of the Cuban Revolution / Henry Highland Garnet -- 95. The Civil Rights Bill / Robert Browne Elliott -- 96. Equality before the Law / John Mercer Langston -- 97. The Civil Rights Bill / James T. Rapier -- 98. The Great Problem to Be Solved / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- 99. Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Douglass -- 100. The Sioux's Revenge / B.T. Tanner -- 101. How Long? How Long, O Heaven? / Henry McNeal Turner -- 102. Socialism: The Remedy for the Evils of Society / Peter H. Clark -- 103. Reasons Why the Colored American Should Go to Africa / John E. Bruce -- 104. The Destined Superiority of the Negro / Alexander Crummell -- 105. Migration Is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs / Robert J. Harlan -- 106. Race Unity / Ferdinand L. Barnett -- 107. Redeem the Indian / Blanche K. Bruce -- 108. These Evils Call Loudly for Redress / John P. Green -- 109. Negro Education -- Its Helps and Hindrances / William H. Crogman -- 110. The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain / John Jasper -- 111. Reasons for a New Political Party / Henry McNeal Turner -- 112. The Present Relations of Labor and Capital / T. Thomas Fortune -- 113. How Shall We Make the Women of Our Race Stronger? / Olivia A. Davidson -- 114. Introduction of Master Workman Powderly / Frank J. Ferrell -- 115. I Am an Anarchist / Lucy E. Parsons -- 116. Mob Violence / Samuel Allen McElwee -- 117. Woman's Place in the Work of the Denomination / Mary V. Cook -- 118. How Shall We Get Our Rights? / M. Edward Bryant -- 119. Importance of Race Pride / Edward Everett Brown -- 120. Woman Suffrage / Frederick Douglass -- 121. I Denounce the So-Called Emancipation as a Stupendous Fraud / Frederick Douglass -- 122. Organized Resistance Is Our Best Remedy / John E. Bruce -- 123. National Perils / William Bishop Johnson -- 124. It Is Time to Call a Halt / T. Thomas Fortune -- 125. Harvard Class Day Oration / Clement Garnett Morgan -- 126. Education and the Problem / Joseph C. Price -- 127. Lynch Law in All Its Phases / Ida B. Wells -- 128. The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States Since the Emancipation Proclamation / Fannie Barrier Williams -- 129. Women's Cause Is One and Universal / Anna Julia Cooper -- 130. Justice or Emigration Should Be Our Watchword / Henry McNeal Turner -- 131. The Ethics of the Hawaiian Question / William Saunders Scarborough -- 132. Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women / Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin.
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