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Excerpts from American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation

Excerpts from American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to EmancipationEdited by James G. Basker

These excerpts were chosen from more than 215 selections by 158 authors in the anthology.

Abraham Lincoln, speech fragment on slavery and the American government, ca. 185

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Lincoln speech on slavery and the American Dream, 1858

Through the 1830s and 1840s, Abraham Lincoln’s primary political focus was on economic issues....

The protectors of our industries, Gillam ; Mayer Merkel & Ottmann lithograph, NY

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Anti-corporate cartoons, ca. 1900

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Ulysses S. Grant to Tiffany and Co., January 1884. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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Statue of Liberty, 1884

First conceived of in 1865, the Statue of...

Harriet Beecher Stowe to Prince Albert, March 20, 1852. (GLC)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe sends Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Victoria and Albert, 1852

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 inspired her to write ...

Aaron Burr to Joseph Alston, July 20, 1804 (GLC01523)

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Aaron Burr, fugitive and traitor, 1804

On July 11, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr shot former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel in Weehawken, New...

The Inaugural address of President Abraham Lincoln delivered at the National Cap

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President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 1865

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America the Beautiful, signed by author Katharine Lee Bates, ca. 1925. (GLC)

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America the Beautiful, 1893

In a brief essay that appeared ca. 1925, poet Katharine Lee...

Cotton Mather. The Wonders of the Invisible world....,1693 (Gilder Lehrman Colle

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Cotton Mather’s Account of the Witch Trials, 1693

Most Americans’ knowledge of the seventeenth century comes from heavily...

First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933. (GLC00675)

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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inauguration, 1933

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