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Preface to the second edition, 2009
Introduction to the third edition
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Primary documents: About the primary documents; The forme of a binding servant, 1635; An indentured servant's letter home, 1623; Colonial laws; A minute against slavery, 1688; Phyllis Wheatley: letter to Rev. Samson Occum, 1774; African slave trade / by Alexander Falconbridge, 1788; Inventory of estate of Mark Cosby, 1752; Bars fight / by Lucy Terry; To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth / by Phillis Wheatley; A narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life of James Albert / Ukawsaw Gronniosaw; Proclamation of Earl of Dunmore; Vermont's 1777 Constitution; Free at last / by J.W.Work; Steal away to Jesus / by J.W.Johnson, J.R.Johnson; Swing low sweet chariot; Preamble of the Free African Society / by Absolom Jones, Richard Allen, 1787; Excerpt from Olaudah Equiano's slave narrative, 1789; Letter from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson; Response to Benjamin Banneker; Letter to William Basset; Excerpt from the poetical works of George M. Horton; Our paper and its prospects / by Frederick Douglass; Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): Ain't I a woman?, 1851; What to the slave is the Fourth of July?, 1852 / by Frederick Douglass; Excerpt from the Dred Scott v. Sanford Decision, 1857; Interview with Walter Calloway; The Emancipation Proclamation; The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; Our raison d'être / by Anna Julia Cooper
The Honorable Frederick Douglass's letter to Ida Wells; How it feels to be colored me / by Zora Neale Hurston.; Excerpt from Cold Keener, a revue / by Zora Neale Hurston; Testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer; The ballot or the bullet / by Malcolm X; Excerpt from Black power speech / by Stokely Carmichael; The Black Panther Platform, 1966; The Combahee River Collective statement / Combahee River Collective; Inauguration poem / by Maya Angelou; Praise song for the day / by Elizabeth Alexander; Nobel lecture, 1993 / by Toni Morrison; A more perfect union "the race speech", 2008 / by Barack Obama; A herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement / by Alicia Garza
Appendix A: Chronology of writers
Appendix B: Chronology of firsts
Appendix C: Timeline
Appendix D: Writers by genre
Appendix E: Writers by occupation
Appendix F: References
Appendix G: Key to references.
Introduction to the third edition
Entries A-Z
Primary documents: About the primary documents; The forme of a binding servant, 1635; An indentured servant's letter home, 1623; Colonial laws; A minute against slavery, 1688; Phyllis Wheatley: letter to Rev. Samson Occum, 1774; African slave trade / by Alexander Falconbridge, 1788; Inventory of estate of Mark Cosby, 1752; Bars fight / by Lucy Terry; To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth / by Phillis Wheatley; A narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life of James Albert / Ukawsaw Gronniosaw; Proclamation of Earl of Dunmore; Vermont's 1777 Constitution; Free at last / by J.W.Work; Steal away to Jesus / by J.W.Johnson, J.R.Johnson; Swing low sweet chariot; Preamble of the Free African Society / by Absolom Jones, Richard Allen, 1787; Excerpt from Olaudah Equiano's slave narrative, 1789; Letter from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson; Response to Benjamin Banneker; Letter to William Basset; Excerpt from the poetical works of George M. Horton; Our paper and its prospects / by Frederick Douglass; Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): Ain't I a woman?, 1851; What to the slave is the Fourth of July?, 1852 / by Frederick Douglass; Excerpt from the Dred Scott v. Sanford Decision, 1857; Interview with Walter Calloway; The Emancipation Proclamation; The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; Our raison d'être / by Anna Julia Cooper
The Honorable Frederick Douglass's letter to Ida Wells; How it feels to be colored me / by Zora Neale Hurston.; Excerpt from Cold Keener, a revue / by Zora Neale Hurston; Testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer; The ballot or the bullet / by Malcolm X; Excerpt from Black power speech / by Stokely Carmichael; The Black Panther Platform, 1966; The Combahee River Collective statement / Combahee River Collective; Inauguration poem / by Maya Angelou; Praise song for the day / by Elizabeth Alexander; Nobel lecture, 1993 / by Toni Morrison; A more perfect union "the race speech", 2008 / by Barack Obama; A herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement / by Alicia Garza
Appendix A: Chronology of writers
Appendix B: Chronology of firsts
Appendix C: Timeline
Appendix D: Writers by genre
Appendix E: Writers by occupation
Appendix F: References
Appendix G: Key to references.