Angelina Grimké. “Appeal to the Christian Women of the South”. Book excerpt, 1836. From TeachingAmerican History. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/appeal-to-christian-women-of-the-south/ (accessed January 19, 2022)Description: Grimke writes an anti-slavery tract.
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Smith, Sidney Lawton, Engraver, and Paul Revere. The bloody massacre perpetrated in King - Street Boston on March 5th, by a party of the 29th Regt. / engrav'd printed & sold by Paul Revere, Boston ; re-engraved by Sidney L. Smith. Boston Massachusetts, 1908. Boston, Mass.: Published by Charles E. Goodspeed. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012648847/Embellished Engraving of the scene of the Boston Massacre by Paul Revere
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Douglass, Frederick. "Emancipation Proclaimed." Frederick Douglass Project Writings- University of Rochester. 1862, https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/4406Description: Stephen Douglass reacts to the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
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Douglass, Frederick. "The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro"Speech, Rochester, NY, July4, 1852. Independence Hall Association (ushistory.org). https://www.ushistory.org/declaration/more/douglass.htmlDescription: Douglass' address to a predominantly white audience regarding the celebration of the Fourth of July by African Americans
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Thoreau, Henry David. 1906. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (WaldenEdition) Translated by Bradley Dean (Thoreau Institute) Boston:Houghton Mifflinand Company, 1906 (https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/johnbrown.html)Description:A eulogy on the day of John Brown’s execution
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Lincoln, Abraham. Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 2. General Correspondence. -1864: Horace Greeley to Abraham Lincoln, August 1, 1862 Clipping of Letter; endorsed by Lincoln. August 1, 1862.Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mal4233500/.
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Davis, Jefferson. "First Inaugural Address." Transcript of speechdelivered at the Alabama Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama, February 18, 1861.https://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/archives/documents/jefferson-davis-first-inaugural-addressDescription: The Confederate President addresses his countrymen
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Brown, John. Address of John Brown to the Virginia Court, when about to receive the sentence ofdeath, for his heroic attempt at Harper's Ferry to give deliverance to the captives, and to let theoppressed go free ... Boston. Printed by C. C. Mead, 91 Washin. Boston, 1859. Pdf.https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.06500500/Description: John Brown defends himself before his sentence is rendered
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Calhoun, John C., “Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions, February, 1837.”
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Garrison, William Lloyd. “To The Public”. The Liberator. January 01, 1831. From Teaching AmericanHistory. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/to-the-public/ (accessed January 19, 2022).Description: First page of the inaugural issue of this anti-slavery newspaper.
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Preston, Thomas. “Captain Thomas Preston’s Account of the Boston Massacre.” Boston Massacre Historical Society. January 19, 2022 < http://www.bostonmassacre.net/trial/acct-preston1.htm>
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Summary of the sworn testimony of Samuel Drowne, March 16, 1770
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Roosevelt, Theodore. “Address of Vice President Roosevelt, Minnesota State Fair, Minneapolis, Sept. 2nd, 1901.” The Minneapolis Journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.), 02 Sept. 1901. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045366/1901-09-02/ed-1/seq-16/> Accessed Oct. 20, 2021. This work is in the Public Domain.
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2 articles written by Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass, “What Shall Be Done with the Slaves if Emancipated?” Douglass Monthly, January 1862Frederick Douglass, “Why Should a Colored Man Enlist?” Douglass’ Monthly, April 1863Letter from James Henry Gooding to President LincolnJames Henry Gooding to President Lincoln, September 28, 1863, published in Herbert Aptheker, ed., A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States (New York: Citadel Press, 1951), 482-84.
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THE LIBERTIES OF THE MASSACHUSETS COLLONIE IN NEW ENGLAND, 1641.
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"A Boston-born Loyalist and Supreme Court judge in Massachusetts, Peter Oliver condemned the American rebellion as illegal, unfounded, and utterly self-destructive. For his staunch defense of British imperial authority, Oliver was harassed by Sons of Liberty and forced from his judgeship in 1774. In January 1776, he published this address urging Continental soldiers to stop, think, and abandon the Patriot cause. Two months later, he left Boston with the British as they evacuated the town, and he eventually settled in England. In 1781 he published an irate account of the pre-revolutionary period titled Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion. In this address, Oliver responds to a statement issued about two months earlier by the officers of the Continental Army to its soldiers, urging them to remain in the downsized army and stand resolute despite hardship. What is Oliver’s goal in refuting the officers’ plea? How does he work to turn the soldiers against their officers? How does he intensify the impact of his address?"
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Thomas Paine, The Crisis, #1, December 1776 Dec. 19, 1776: Published as a pamphlet in Philadelphia. Dec. 24, 1776: Read to Washington’s troops before the crossing of the Delaware River and victory in the Battle of Trenton.
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Companion discussion questions to accompany Jerry Falwell, Listen America (1980)
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“National People’s Party Platform, Adopted at Omaha, Neb., July 4, 1892.” The World Almanac 1893, Press Publishing Company, New York, 1893. Pg. 83-85. Accessed at https://archive.org/details/worldalmanac1893newy/page/82/mode/2up Oct. 25, 2021. This work is in the Public Domain
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Harry S. Truman, “Special Message to the Congress on Greece and Turkey,” March 17, 1947. Accessed at https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/56/special-message-congress-greece-and-turkey-truman-doctrine Oct. 24, 2021. This work is in the Public Domain.
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