Contents: Volume 1
- 1. A New World
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- 1. Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish Treatment of the Indians (1528)
- 2. Richard Hakluyt, Argument for Colonization (1584)
- 3. The Levellers, The Agreement of the People (1647)
- 4. Henry Care, English Liberties (1680)
- 2. American Beginnings, 1607–1650
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- 5. Complaint of an Indentured Servant (1756)
- 6. Maryland Act Concerning Religion (1644)
- 7. Slave Conspiracy in Virginia (1709)
- 8. John Winthrop on Liberty (1645)
- 9. The Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637)
- 3. Crisis and Expansion: North American Colonies, 1650–1750
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- 10. The Pueblo Revolt (1680)
- 11. New York Charter of Liberties and Privileges (1683)
- 12. William Penn on Religious Liberty (1675)
- 13. Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
- 14. Letter by an Immigrant to Pennsylvania (1769)
- 4. Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire, to 1763
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- 15. Olaudah Equiano on Slavery (1789)
- 16. The Independent Reflector on Limited Monarchy and Liberty (1752)
- 17. The Trial of John Peter Zenger (1735)
- 18. Two Speeches by Pontiac (1762-63)
- 5. The American Revolution, 1763–1783
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- 19. Virginia Resolutions on the Stamp Act (1765)
- 20. Petition of North Carolina Regulators (1769)
- 21. Association of the New York Sons of Liberty (1773)
- 22. Farmington, Connecticut Resolutions on the Intolerable Acts (1774)
- 23. Thomas Paine on Independence and Republicanism (1776)
- 6. The Revolution Within
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- 24. Abigail and John Adams on Women and the American Revolution (1776)
- 25. The Right of "Free Suffrage" (1776)
- 26. Thomas Jefferson, An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1785)
- 27. Liberating Indentured Servants (1784)
- 28. Black Freedom Petition (1777)
- 7. Founding a Nation, 1783–1789
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- 29. Petition of Inhabitants West of the Ohio River (1785)
- 30. James Madison, The Federalist, No. 51 (1787)
- 31. James Winthrop, The Anti-Federalist Argument (1787)
- 32. A July 4th Oration (1800)
- 8. Securing the Republic, 1790–1815
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- 33. William Manning on the Nature of Free Government (1799)
- 34. The Democratic-Republican Societies and "Freedom of Opinion" (1794)
- 35. Judith Sargent Murray on Female Equality (1790)
- 36. George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)
- 37. George Tucker on Gabriel’s Rebellion (1801)
- 38. Tecumseh on Indians and Land (1810)
- 9. The Market Revolution
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- 39. Life in the Lowell Mills (1840)
- 40. Ralph Waldo Emerson on Individualism (1837)
- 41. Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
- 42. Charles G. Finney on Sin and Redemption (1836)
- 43. Orestes Brownson on the Laboring Classes (1840)
- 10. Democracy in America, 1815–1840
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- 44. Virginia Petition for the Right to Vote (1829)
- 45. John Quincy Adams on the Role of the National Government (1825)
- 46. John C. Calhoun, the Concurrent Majority (ca. 1845)
- 47. Appeal of the Cherokee Nation (1830)
- 48. Andrew Jackson, Veto of the Bank Bill (1832)
- 11. The Peculiar Institution
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- 49. The Pro-Slavery Argument (1837-38)
- 50. Frederick Douglass on the Desire for Freedom (1845)
- 51. Letter by a Fugitive Slave (1840)
- 52. Confession of Nat Turner (1831)
- 12. An Age of Reform, 1820–1840
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- 53. Robert Owen, "a New System of Society" (1825)
- 54. Philip Schaff on Freedom as Self-Restraint (1855)
- 55. Opening Editorial of The Liberator (1831)
- 56. Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July (1852)
- 57. Angelina Grimké on Women’s Rights (1837)
- 58. Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
- 13. A House Divided, 1840–1861
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- 59. Henry David Thoreau on Civil Disobedience (1849)
- 60. George Henry Evans, "Freedom of the Soil" (1844)
- 61. William Henry Seward on the "Irrepressible Conflict" (1858)
- 62. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
- 63. South Carolina Ordinance of Secession (1860)
- 14. A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861–1865
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- 64. Letter of a Civil War Soldier (1864)
- 65. Abraham Lincoln, "The Gettysburg Address" (1863)
- 66. Frederick Douglass on Black Soldiers (1863)
- 67. Lincoln on Liberty (1864)
- 68. Mary Livermore, Women and the War (1883)
- 15. "What is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865–1877
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- 69. "Colloquy With Colored Ministers" (1865)
- 70. Petition for Land (1865)
- 71. The White South and Black Freedom (1866)
- 72. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Reconstructing Marriage (c. 1875)
- 73. Robert B. Elliott on Civil Rights (1874)
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