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Lift every voice : African American oratory, 1787-1900

eBook 1998

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Abstract

 "Oratory has played a vital role in struggles for liberation and social reform throughout U.S. history. Containing more than 150 speeches, this volume represents the most extensive and diverse collection of African American oratory of the 18th and 19th centuries ever published."--Jacket
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Description *Lift every voice : African American oratory, 1787-1900 / edited by Philip S. Foner and Robert James Branham
Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1998
1 online resource (xv, 925 pages)
Note English.
Formato pdf/epub
Accesso riservato secondo le condizioni contrattuali https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=13536
ISBN 9780585140865
0585140863
9780817309060
9780817308483
0817309063
0817308482
Series Studies in rhetoric and communication
Coauthor
Branham, Robert J
Foner, Philip Sheldon <1910-1994>
Publication year 1998
Contents note 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.