Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Titles in ABC-CLIO’s Documents Decoded Series.
Series Note.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
1: Slavery and Racial Thought in Colonial and Revolutionary America.
2: Quakers and Abolitionism: Petition of Germantown Quakers; 1688.
3: Puritan Protests: Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph; 1700.
4: Race and the Enlightenment: David Hume, “Of National Characters”; 1758.
5: The Colonial Crisis and Abolitionism: James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved; 1764.
6: Organized Black Abolitionism: Petition of Massachusetts Blacks to the General Court; 1773.
7: African and Indian Alliances: Phillis Wheatley, “Letter to Samson Occom”; 1774.
8: Black Masons Protest Slavery: Petition of Prince Hall to the General Court; 1777.
9: Antislavery Poetry: Phillis Wheatley, “On the Death of General Wooster”; 1778.
10: “No Taxation without Representation”: Petition of John and Paul Cuffe to the General Court; 1780.
11: “A Suspicion Only”: Thomas Jefferson, Excerpt from Notes on the State of Virginia; 1785.
12: Slavery and the Constitution: Gouverneur Morris, “Constitutional Convention Speech”; 1787.
13: Atlantic Crossings: Josiah Wedgwood, “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”; 1787.
14: Abolitionism and Proslavery Thought in Antebellum America.
15: Slavery and Power: Thomas Ruffin Opinion in State v. Mann, North Carolina Supreme Court; 1829.
16: Early Black Nationalism: David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World; 1829.
17: “I Will Be Heard”: William Lloyd Garrison, “To the Public”; 1831.
18: Female Prophets of Abolition: Maria Stewart, “Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston”; 1833.
19: Southern Abolitionists: Angelina Grimké, An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South; 1836.
20: Antislavery and Women’s Rights: Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, “Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?”; 1837.
21: Slave Narratives: Charles Ball, Slavery in the United States; 1837.
22: “Republicanism a Sham”: Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”; 1852.
23: Foundation of the Confederacy: Alexander Stephens, “Cornerstone Speech”; 1861.
24: Finally Free: Emancipation Proclamation; 1863.
25: The Meaning of the War: Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address; 1865.
Timeline.
Further Reading.
Index.
About the Author.