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 . Let us see delineated before us the true map of man . Let us hear the dignity of his nature , and the noble rank he holds among the works of God - that consent- ing to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust , as offensive ...
... slavery and vice . Let the public disputations become researches into the grounds and nature and ends of government , and the means of preserving the good and demolishing the evil . Let the dialogues , and all the exercises , become the ...
... SLAVES ' APPEAL TO THE ROYAL GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS We are a freeborn Pepel and have never forfeited this Blessing ... slavery , especially Quakers and Mennonites , and leaders such as Benjamin Franklin , Alexander Hamilton , and John ...
... slavery during the War . Most Africans , however , remained in slavery , a reproach to the ideals of the new nation . he Petition of a Grate Number of Blacks of this Province who The by divine permission are held in a state of Slavery ...
... slavery and operson against my will and how can we fulfill our parte of duty to him whilst in this condition and as we cannot searve our God as we ought whilst in this situation . Neither can we reap an equal benefet from the laws of ...