The speeches of Frederick Douglass : a critical edition /
A collection of twenty of Frederick Douglass's most important orations This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass's most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, sectionalism, temperance, women's rights, econo...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | McKivigan, John R., 1949- editor. Husband, Julie, editor. Kaufman, Heather L., 1969- editor. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- "I Have Come to Tell You Something about Slavery" (1841)
- "Temperance and Anti-Slavery" (1846)
- "American Slavery, American Religion, and the Free Church of Scotland" (1846)
- "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (1852)
- "A Nation in the Midst of a Nation" (1853)
- "The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered" (1854)
- "The American Constitution and the Slave" (1860)
- "The Mission of the War" (1864)
- "Sources of Danger to the Republic" (1867)
- "Let the Negro Alone" (1869)
- "We Welcome the Fifteenth Amendment" (1869)
- "Our Composite Nationality" (1869)
- "Which Greeley Are We Voting For?" (1872)
- "Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict" (1873)
- "The Freedmen's Monument to Abraham Lincoln" (1876)
- "This Decision Has Humbled the Nation" (1883)
- " 'It Moves, ' or the Philosophy of Reform" (1883)
- "I Am a Radical Woman Suffrage Man" (1888)
- "Self-Made Men" (1893)
- "Lessons of the Hour" (1894)
- Caleb Bingham, from The Columbian Orator (1817)
- Henry Highland Garnet, from "An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America" (1843)
- Samuel Ringgold Ward, "Speech Denouncing Daniel Webster's Endorsement of the Fugitive Slave Law" (1850)
- Wendell Phillips, from "Toussaint L'Ouverture" (1863)
- Frederick Douglass, "Give Us the Facts," from My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
- Frederick Douglass, "One Hundred Conventions" (1843), from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881; 1892)
- Frederick Douglass, "Letter from the Editor" (1849), from the Rochester North Star
- Frederick Douglass, "A New Vocation before Me" (1870), from Life and Times
- Frederick Douglass, "People Want to Be Amused as Well as Instructed" (1871), Letter to James Redpath
- Frederick Douglass, "Great Is the Miracle of Human Speech" (1891), from the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star
- Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, from "Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Meeting" (1841)
- William J. Wilson, "A Leaf from My Scrap Book: Samuel R. Ward and Frederick Douglass" (1849)
- Thurlow G. Weed, from "A Colored Man's Eloquence" (1853)
- William Wells Brown, from The Rising Son (1874)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "An 1895 Public Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the Occasion of Frederick Douglass's Death," from In Memoriam: Frederick Douglass, ed. Helen Douglass (1897)
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson, from American Orators and Oratory (1901)
- Gregory P. Lampe, from Frederick Douglass: Freedom's Voice, 1818-1845
- Ivy G. Wilson, from Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S.
- Richard W. Leeman, from "Fighting for Freedom Again: African American Reform Rhetoric in the Late Nineteenth Century"
- David Howard-Pitney, from the Afro-American Jeremiad: Appeals for Justice in America
- Granville Ganter, from "'He Made Us Laugh Some': Frederick Doublass's Humor"
- Chronology of other important speeches and events in Frederick Douglass's life.