The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 5. 9. 2000. - 656 страница The American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that have inspired, enraged, delighted, chastened, and comforted Americans in days gone by. Gathered here are the writings that illuminate -- with wit, eloquence, and sometimes sharp words -- significant aspects of national conciousness. They reflect the part that all Americans -- black and white, native born and immigrant, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, poor and wealthy -- have played in creating the nation's character. |
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... slavery ! Our chains are forged ! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! I repeat it , sir , let it come ! It is in vain , sir , to extenuate the matter . Gentlemen may cry peace ...
... slavery and the slave trade in the colonies ( the deleted mater- ial read , in part , " He has waged cruel war against human nature itself , violat- ing its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who ...
... slavery , then is there no such a thing as slavery upon earth . Even the expression is impious , for so unlimited a power can belong only to God .... I have as little superstition in me as any man Colonial Days and the Revolution ☆ 51.
... slavery without hope - our homes turned into barracks and bawdy - houses for Hessians , and a future race to provide for , whose fathers we shall doubt of . Look on this picture and weep over it ! and if there yet remains one ...
... slavery . On March 31 , 1776 , Abigail Adams wrote to her husband while the Continental Congress was deliberating independence . After describing the arrival of spring in Massachusetts , she admonished him to " Remember the Ladies ...