American antislavery writings: colonial beginnings to emancipation

Resolution of Germantown Mennonites / Gerret Hendricks, Derick op de Graeff, Francis Daniell Pastorius, and Abraham op den Graef

Exhortation & caution to friends concerning buying or keeping of negroes / George Keith

Selling of Joseph: a memorial / Samuel Sewall

from The American defence of the Christian golden rule, or an essay to prove the unlawfulness of making slaves of men / John Hepburn

from A testimony against the anti-Christian practice of making slaves of men / Elihu Coleman

from All slave-keepers that keep the innocent in bondage / Benjamin Lay

from The journal, 1755; 1758 / John Woolman

from Observations on the in slaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes / Anthony Benezet

Letter to the Virginia Gazette, March 19, 1767 / Arthur Lee

Conservation on slavery / Benjamin Franklin

Correspondent, No 8 / John Trumbull

Ethiopians shall stretch out their hands to God, or a call to the Ethiopians / Jane Dunlap

from A mite cast into the treasury; or, observations on slave-keeping / David Cooper

Letter to John Alsop, January 13, 1773 / Patrick Henry

To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, his majesty's principal secretary of state for North-America, & c

Letter to the Rev Samson Occom, February 11, 1774 / Phillis Wheatley

from The reigning abominations, especially the slave trade, considered as causes of lamentation / Elhanan Winchester

Letter to the Pennsylvania Journal, March 8, 1775 / Thomas Paine

from Liberty further extended: or free thoughts on the illegality of slave-keeping / Lemuel Haynes

from A dialogue, concerning the slavery of the Africans / Samuel Hopkins

from The prospect of peace

from The Columbiad / Joel Barlow

Observations on slavery

from Short observations on slavery / Anthony Benezet

from A dialogue, in titled, The kind master and the dutiful servant / Jupiter Hammon

Shandyism / Anonymous

Letter to Robert Morris, April 12, 1786

from Last will and testament / George Washington

Paradise of Negro-slaves-a dream / Benjamin Rush

Essay on Negro slavery, No I / Anonymous

Help! oh, help! thou God of Christians! / Theodore Dwight

Petition of a great number of blacks, Freemen of this commonwealth / Prince Hall

from The Inquisitor; or, Invisible Rambler / Susanna Rowson

from The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself / Olaudah Equiano.

Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim on the slave trade / Benjamin Franklin

from A poetical epistle to the enslaved Africans, in the character of an ancient negro, born a slave in Pennsylvania / Joseph Sansom

from Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the Secretary of State / Benjamin Banneker

from The injustice and impolicy of the slave trade, and of the slavery of the Africans / Jonathan Edwards

Petition and address of the Connecticut Society, for the promotion of freedom / Ezra Stiles et al

Memorial of the Virginia Society, for promoting the abolition of slavery / Robert Pleasants et al

Wretched Taillah: an African story / Anonymous

African chief / Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton

from Effects of slavery on morals and industry / Noah Webster

from Greenfield Hill

from Triumph of democracy

from The charitable blessed / Timothy Dwight

On the migration to America, and peopling the western country

Virginia: a fragment / Philip Freneau

from A poem on industry addressed to the citizens of the United States of America

from A valedictory discourse / David Humphreys

from The compass / Charles Pinckney Sumner

from Reflections on the slavery of the negroes, addressed to the conscience of every American citizen / Anonymous

from A dissertation on slavery: with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it, in the State of Virginia / St George Tucker

from The American in Algiers, or the patriot of seventy-six in captivity / Anonymous

from Memoirs of the life of Boston King, a black preacher / Boston King

African slave ["Ye sons of Columbia"] / Anonymous

from The penitential tyrant; or, Slave trader reformed / Thomas Branagan

On slavery / Isabella Oliver

from A Thanksgiving sermon / Absalom Jones

African slave ["Shall the muse that's wont to wander"] / Anonymous

Hymn I / Peter Williams Jr

from The blind African slave, or memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, nick-named Jeffrey Brace / Boyrereau Brinch

Hymn II / William Hamilton

from An oration delivered at the fourth anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade / Adam Carman

from Poor Peter's call to his children, and to all others who can hear and believe / Peter Clemmons Sr

from Letters from a man of colour on a late bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania / James Forten

from The book and slavery irreconcilable / George Bourne

from A memoir presented to the American convention for promoting the abolition of slavery, and improving the condition of the African race / Prince Saunders

Letter to Elias Boudinot, Esq, November 17, 1819 / John Jay.

from Observations of Rufus King, on the Missouri Bill / Rufus King

Christian slave / Anonymous

from An oration on the abolition of the slave trade / Jeremiah Gloucester

from Africa / Ann Evans

African chief / William Cullen Bryant

Slave-ship

Enfranchisement

Tea-table talk

Think of our country's glory / Elizabeth Margaret Chandler

To the first slave ship

Slavery: written for the celebration of the Fourth of July / Lydia Sigourney

On liberty and slavery

Slave's complaint / George Moses Horton

from Life and adventures of Robert Voorhis, the hermit of Massachusetts / Robert Voorhis

from Walker's appeal in four articles; together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world / David Walker

African women / Anonymous

To the public

Universal emancipation

Truisms

Song of the abolitionist / William Lloyd Garrison

To William Lloyd Garrison

Hunters of men

Yankee girl

Clerical oppressors

Slave ships

Branded hand / John Greenleaf Whittier

Dream

Another dream / Anonymous

Family circle-No 8 / Anonymous

Jumbo and Zairee

Slavery's pleasant homes / Lydia Maria Francis Child

from Slavery / William Ellery Channing

from Slavery in the United States: a narrative of the life and adventures of Charles Ball, a black man / Charles Ball

To the slaveholders of the south

from The sinfulness of slaveholding in all circumstances; tested by reason and scripture / James Gillespie Birney

from An address delivered before the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia / James Forten

from An epistle to the clergy of the southern states narrative and testimony of Sarah M Grimke / Sarah Moore Grimke

from An appeal to the women of the nominally free states / Angelina Emily Grimke

Word from a petitioner, to congress

Tocsin

Plymouth rock

I would not live always / John Pierpont

from A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper, from American slavery / Moses Roper

from Narrative of James Williams: an American slave: who was for several years a driver on a cotton plantation in Alabama / James Williams

Mother Coelia / Edmund Quincy

from Letter of Gerrit Smith to Hon Henry Clay / Gerrit Smith

from American slavery as it is: testimony of a thousand witnesses / Theodore Dwight Weld

Pinda:-a true tale / Maria Weston Chapman

Lonely hearted / Harriet Winslow

from Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of the United States, appellants, vs Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the Schooner Amistad / John Quincy Adams

Dialogue on slavery / Daniel Henshaw

from The narrative of Lunsford Lane, formerly of Raleigh, N C / Lunsford Lane

Slave's dream

Slave in the dismal swamp

Slave singing at midnight

Quadroon girl

Witnesses / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Duty and safety of emancipation / John Neal

Arouse, New-England's sons / M L Gardner

Address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet

Hymn 17 / Jairus Lincoln

Am I not a sister? / Anonymous.

Blind slave boy / Margaret Lucy Shands Bailey

March to the battlefield / George W Clark

Slave boy's wish

Pic-nic at Dedham / Eliza Lee Follen

Fugitive slave to the Christian / Elizur Wright Jr

Anniversary of West Indian emancipation / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rallying cry for New England, against the annexation of Texas / James Russell Lowell

from Narratives of the sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke / Lewis Garrard Clarke

Anti-slavery alphabet / Hannah Townsend and Mary Townsend

from A discourse delivered at the Plymouth church, Brooklyn, NY upon Thanksgiving Day / Henry Ward Beecher

from A lecture delivered before the female anti-slavery society of Salem

from Narrative of William W Brown, a fugitive slave, written by himself

American slave-trade

from Clotel; or, the president's daughter

from The escape; or, a leap for freedom / William Wells Brown

Sketch from Maryland life / Caroline W Healey Dall

Childless mother / Joseph Evans Snodgrass

from The young abolitionists; or, conversations on slavery / Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock Jones

from The narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself / Henry Bibb

from Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, written by himself / Henry "Box" Brown

from The life of Josiah Henson, formerly a slave, now an inhabitant of Canada / Josiah Henson

from A sermon to the medical students / Lucretia Mott

Compromise / James Russell Lowell

from Speech of Horace Mann of Massachusetts, on the subject of slavery in the territories, and the consequences of a dissolution of the union

from Speech on the fugitive slave law / Horace Mann

from The narrative of Sojourner Truth; a northern slave, emancipated from bodily servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 / Sojourner Truth

from The great apostate / William Lloyd Garrison

Impromptu stanzas, suggested by the working of the Fugitive Slave Act, as illustrated in the case of Rev Doctor Pennington / J M Eells

from Uncle Tom's cabin

Caste and Christ

Sale of Little Harry

Eliza crossing the river

Legree striking Tom

Two altars; or, Two pictures in one / Harriet Beecher Stowe

from Uncle Tom's cabin; or, Life among the lowly, a domestic drama / George L Aiken

What to the slave is the 4th of July?

from The heroic slave / Frederick Douglass

from Speech of Wendell Phillips at the Melodeon / Wendell Phillips

from Ellen, or The chained mother / Mary B Harlan

from Twelve years a slave, narrative of Solomon Northup / Solomon Northup

Passages in the life of a slave woman / Annie Parker

Ode / John Pierpont

Be up and doing / William H Seward

Domestic slave trade / Horace Greeley

from Massachusetts in mourning / Thomas Wentworth Higginson

from Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois / Abraham Lincoln

from Ida May: a story of things actual and possible / Mary Hayden Green Pike

Slavery in Massachusetts / Henry David Thoreau

Lecture on slavery / Ralph Waldo Emerson

from Benito Cereno / Herman Melville

from Introduction to Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom / James McCune Smith

from The refugee: or the narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada / Lydia Adams.

from The refugee: or the narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada / Harry Thomas

from The refugee: or the narratives of slaves in Canada / Harriet Tubman

from Autobiography of a female slave / Martha Griffith Browne

from The quadroon; or, a lover's adventures in Louisiana / Thomas Mayne Reid

from The crime against Kansas / Charles Sumner

from Neighbor Jackwood / John T Trowbridge

from The curse entailed / Harriet Hamline Bigelow

from Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman / Austin Steward

Lucy; or, The slave girl of Kentucky / Anonymous

from the Rev J W Loguen, as a slave and as a freeman: a narrative of real life / Jermain Wesley Loguen

Speech to the court

Letter to Mrs George L Stearns, November 29, 1859 / John Brown

Speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ralph Waldo Emerson

With a rose, that bloomed on the day of John Brown's martyrdom

Hour / Louisa May Alcott

Slave's appeal / Elizabeth Cady Stanton

from The barbarism of slavery / Charles Sumner

Mannahatta / Walt Whitman

Battle hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe

from Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Ann Jacobs

from Blake: or the huts of America / Martin R Delany

Prayer of twenty millions / Horace Greeley

Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln

No greater joy than to see these children walking in the anti-slavery path / Lucretia Mott

Color-caste-denomination / Emily Dickinson

from Cudjo's cave / John T Trowbridge

Laus Deo / John Greenleaf Whittier

from A memorial discourse / Henry Highland Garnet

Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln

Death of Lincoln / William Cullen Bryant

from Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln / Charles Sumner

Thirteenth Amendment to the U S Constitution / Lyman Trumbull, et. al.