Give Me Liberty! 2nd Edition
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CHAPTER 11
DocumentsThomas R. Dew on Emancipation after Nat Turner, from "Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832" (Richmond 1832); Digital History Project, University of Houston, Mintz, S. (2003), Pamphlet by Thomas Dew
John C. Calhoun sees "Slavery in its true light..." (1838); from The Papers of John C. Calhoun, Volume XIV, edited by Clyde N. Wilson (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981) pp. 84-85.
John C. Calhoun on the Error of "All men are created equal" (1848); from Union and Liberty: The Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun, edited by Ross M. Lence (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1992) pp. 565-66, 568-69.
George Fitzhugh, "The Universal Law of Slavery" (1850); from Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. and Benjamin Quarles, The Black American A Documentary History, Third Edition (Scott, Foresman and Company, Illinois, 1976, 1970).
Tom's Runaway Notice (1850); Ohio Historical Society SC1509.
Sale of Slaves and Stock; Chicago Historical Society.
Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River in Louisiana (Auburn: Derby and Miller; Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan; London: Sampson Low, Son & Company, 47 Ludgate Hill; 1853).
Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society, by George Fitzhugh (Richmond, Va.: A. Morris, Publisher, 1854).
Hammond Plantation manual by James Henry Hammond (1857-58); Library of Congress, James Henry Hammond Papers (container 43), Manuscript Division LC-MS-24695-1 / LC-DIG-ppmsca-02942 DLC.
Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (1858); from Truth Stranger Than Fiction. Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Boston: John P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Henry P. B. Jewett, 1858); from the "Documenting the American South" web site, University of North Carolina Library.
"The Mudsill Theory" (1858); James Henry Hammond, Speech to the U.S. Senate, March 4, 1858.
"An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries" compiled by Joshua Coffin (New York: The American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860); Library of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections Division.
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The Bell Rack (1845); Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-125130.
Slave Quarters (1862); Library of Congress.
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John C. Calhoun, Speech in Congress (February 6,1837); from The Works of John C. Calhoun edited by Richard K. Cralle, Vol. 2 (New York, 1854-57) pp. 629-33.
"Long John" (1845) by Lightening and Group; Library of Congress American Folklife Center.
CHAPTER 12
DocumentsShaker Broadside (1800); Hancock Shaker Village.
"Nat Turner's Insurrection" by Samuel Warner, 1831; Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Document Number: GLC 4548
Lydia Maria Child, An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833); found in An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans edited by Carolyn L. Karcher (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996) pp. 120-21.
"Abolition, Fanaticism, and Freedom" from Evening Post, August 8, 1835, title added by Sedgwick, text abridged; from Leggett, William, Democratick Editorials: Essays in Jacksonian Political Economy, (Liberty Press: 1984); compiled, Edited, and with a Foreword by Lawrence H. White, Library of Economics and Liberty, October 6, 2004
Anti-Abolition Broadside, "Outrage," February 2, 1837; Library of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections Division.
"American Slavery As It Is" by Theodore Weld (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839); Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture Multi-media Archive web site, University of Virginia, Prof. Stephen Railton
Margaret Fuller, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" (1845); Spartacus Educational
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Women's Rights" speech at Seneca Falls (1848); Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
First Annual Report of Oneida Association: Exhibiting Its History, Principles, and Transactions To Jan. 1, 1849, published By Order of the Association; Leonard & Company, Printers, Oneida Reserve, 1849; Oneida Community Collection web site, Syracuse University Library, Department of Special Collections
William Goodell, The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: Its Distinctive Features Shown by Its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts (New York: American & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853); Dinsmore Documentation, Classics of American Slavery web site
Charles R. Harding, The Autobiography of a Methodist Circuit-Riding Minister; E Pluribus Unum Project web site, Assumption College.
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"Am I Not a Man and a Brother" (1787), Wedgwood medallion copied from the seal of the Anti-Slavery Society; Wedgwood and Sons Ltd. Trustees of the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, Staffordshire, England.
"Drunkard's Progress" (1846); Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZC4-1629.
"Tree of Intemperance" (1855); Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-14614.
"Woman's Holy War" (1874); Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-683.
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Angelina Grimke, "On Women's Rights," from The Liberator (August 2, 1837).
CHAPTER 13
DocumentsLansford W. Hastings, "The Emigrants' Guide, to Oregon and California" (1845); Copyright The Huntington Library.
Alfred Robinson, "Life in California before the Conquest" (1846); Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.
Immigrant's Voyage (1847); Digital History Project, University of Houston, Mintz, S. (2003), William Smith, An Emigrant's Narrative; or a Voice from the Steerage (New York: W. Smith, 1850), retrieved 7/2004 from
Lease agreement between John A. Sutter & James Wilson Marshall and the Yalesummi Tribe (February 4, 1848), contemporary copy; California State Library, George McKinstry Collection.
Fugitive Slave Act (approved September 18, 1850); United States Statutes at Large; Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
William Redmond Ryan, Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California (1850), vol. 2.
"Miner's Ten Commandments" by James M. Hutchings (1853); Placerville Herald newspaper.
Abraham Lincoln letter to Joshua Speed (August 24, 1855); Collected Works, II, 320; Massachusetts Historical Society.
Charles Sumner's Speech on the Crime Against Kansas (May 19-20, 1856); Speech in the U.S. Senate.
Abraham Lincoln, "No man wishes to be a slave" (1857-58); Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Document Number GLC 3251; Digital History Project, University of Houston, Mintz, S. (2003), Abraham Lincoln 1857-1858 speech, retrieved 7/2004 from
John Brown Addresses the Virginia Court (Dec 1859); Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Document Number GLC 5508.051; Digital History Project, University of Houston, Mintz, S. (2003)
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (New York, 1885) pp. 22-24; from "America's Civil War" web site, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, Professor John C. Willis.
James Brown, California Gold, An Authentic History of the First Find, with the Names of those Interested in the Discovery, published by the author, James S. Brown (Salt Lake City Utah 1848); (Oakland, Cal.: Pacific Press Publishing Company, 1894).
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"The Heathen Chinese Prospecting" (1852) photograph by Eadweard Muybridge; California Historical Society, San Francisco, through Library of Congress, American Memory: The Chinese in California, 1850-1925, Call number GS Social Groups: Chinese I: FN-04470.
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William H. Seward, "The Irrepressible Conflict: A Speech by William H. Seward" (New York 1858).
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DocumentsDiary of Michael Reid Hanger (1861); "Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War," Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia.
Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck, (December 2, 1861), Executive Order authorizing suspension of writ of habeas corpus, endorsed by William H. Seward; Library of Congress, The Abraham Lincoln Papers, Series 3: General Correspondence, 1837-1897.
Martin T. Tupper to Abraham Lincoln (May 13, 1861); Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress; transcribed and annotated by the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.
First Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation (July 22, 1862); Library of Congress.
Final Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation (September 22, 1862); Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division; transcribed and annotated by the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.
Andrews Memoir (1864); Eliza Frances Andrews, The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl 1864-1865 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1908); "Documenting the American South" web site, University of North Carolina Library.
Mary Chesnut Diary (June 12, 1865).
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Contraband Crossing (1862); Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-00218.
"Lend us a Hand" (August 9, 1862): Heritage-Images, London.
"President Lincoln, Writing the Proclamation of Freedom" (January 1, 1863) by David Gilmour Blythe; Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-2069.
Contraband Teamsters (1864); Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-DIG-cwpb-02004 / LC-USZC4-6158.
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Abraham Lincoln, "On Liberty," address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore (April 18, 1864); from Abraham Lincoln: Letters and Addresses (New York, 1903) pp. 295-96.
"The Faded Coat of Blue" (1860s); Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, WPA Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection.
"The Good Old Rebel" (1860); Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, WPA Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection.
CHAPTER 15
Documents13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments (1865-1869); National Archives & Records Administration.
General William Sherman's Special Field Order 15 (1865); Special Field Orders, No. 15, Headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, 16 Jan. 1865, Orders & Circulars, ser. 44, Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 94, National Archives; from the Freedmen and Southern Society Project web site, University of Maryland.
Johnson's Veto Message (1866); Congressional Globe, Senate, 39th Congress, 1st Session, p. 1681; Library of Congress.
The Civil Rights Bill (1866); Law Library of Congress.
E. H. Haywood, "Uncivil Liberty: An Essay to Show the Injustice and Impolicy of Ruling Woman Against Her Consent" (Princeton, MA: Cooperative Pub. Co., 1871).
Oration by Frederick Douglass, delivered on the occasion of the unveiling of the freedmen's monument in memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Washington, D. C., April 14th, 1876 (Washington, D. C.: Gibson brothers, printers, 1876); Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Daniel A.P. Murray Pamphlets Collection.
David C. Barrow, Jr., "A Georgia Plantation" Scribners Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the people, Volume 21, Issue 5 (New York, Scribner and Son, March 1881) p. 830-836.
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"Celebration of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, by the colored people in Washington, April 19, 1866," by F. Deilman, Harper's Weekly, May 12, 1866, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-33937.
"Scenes in Memphis, Tennessee, During the Riot" by Alfred R. Waud (May 2, 1866); Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-111152.
President Johnson's Attitude Toward the Black Voter (1867); Picture History Item# 17.104.
"This is a White Man's Government" by Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, September 5, 1868; Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-121735.
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Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (October 28, 1865); Henry Bram et al., Petition for Land, P-27, 1865, letters received series 15, Washington Headquarters, Freedmen's Bureau Papers, National Archives.
Interview with Irene Williams, Rome, Mississippi, October 1940; Library of Congress, American Memory: Voices from the Days of Slavery, Call # AFS 4011A LWO 4872, reel 270.
Interview with Mrs. Laura Smalley, Hempstead, Texas, 1941; Library of Congress, American Memory: Voices from the Days of Slavery, Call # AFS 5496A, LWO 4872, reel 380.
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