Anthologies of African American Writing

Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900

"Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900" . Ed. Philip S. Foner and Robert James Barnham. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1998. xv+925 pp.

Introduction

● Cyrus Bustill / I Speak to Those Who Are in Slavery, September 18, 1787
● John Marrant / You Stand on the Level with the Greatest Kings on Earth, June 24, 1789
● Prince Hall / A Charge Delivered to the Brethren of the African Lodge, June 25, 1792
● Prince Hall / Pray God Give Us the Strength to Bear Up Under All Our Troubles, June 24, 1797
● Abraham Johnstone / Address to the People of Colour, July 1797
● Richard Allen / Eulogy for Washington, December 29, 1799
● Lemuel Haynes / Universal Salvation, June, 1805
● Peter Williams, Jr / Abolition of the Slave Trade, January 1, 1808
● Absalom Jones / A Thanksgiving Sermon, January 1, 1808
● William Hamilton / Mutual Interest, Mutual Benefit, and Mutual Relief, January 2, 1809
● George White / A Sermon Preached on the Funeral Occasion of Mary Henery, 1809
● William Hamilton / O! Africa, January 2, 1815
● Margaret Odell / Valedictory Address, April 18, 1822
● John Browne Russwurm / The Condition and Prospects of Haiti, September 6, 1826
● Austin Steward / Termination of Slavery, July 4, 1827
● David Walker / The Necessity of a General Union Among Us, December, 1828
● Peter Williams, Jr. / Slavery and Colonization, July 4, 1830
● Sarah M. Douglass / The Cause of the Slave Became My Own, June, 1832
● Peter Osborne / It Is Time for Us to Be Up and Doing, July 5, 1832
● Maria W. Stewart / Why Sit Ye Here and Die?, September 21, 1832
● Nathaniel Paul / Let Us Alone, July 13, 1833
● Maria W. Stewart / What If I Am a Woman?, September 21, 1833
● William Whippet / Eulogy on William Wilberforce, December 6, 1833
● William Whipper / The Slavery of Intemperance, January 8, 1834
● William Hamilton / Why a Convention Is Necessary, June, 1834
● James Forten, Jr. / Put On the Armour of Righteousness, April 14, 1836
● Theodore S. Wright / The Slave Has a Friend in Heaven, Though He May Have None Here, May 24, 1836
● Elizabeth Jennings, On the Improvement of the Mind, August, 1837
● Theodore S. Wright / Prejudice Against the Colored Man, September 20, 1837
● Daniel A. Payne / Slavery Brutalizes Man, June, 1839
● Clarissa C. Lawrence / We Meet the Monster Prejudice Every Where, May 3, 1839
● Andrew Harris / Slavery Presses Down upon the Free People of Color, May 7, 1839
● Thomas Paul / Let Us Do Justice to an Unfortunate People, January 27, 1841
● Charles Lenox Remand / The Rights of Colored Citizens in Traveling, February, 1842
● Samuel H. Davis / We Must Assert Our Rightful Claims and Plead Our Own Cause, August 15, 1843
● Henry Highland Garnet / An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America, August 16, 1843
● Charles Lenox Remond / For the Dissolution of the Union, May 29, 1844
● Lewis Richardson / I Am Free from American Slavery, March 13, 1846
● William Wells Brown / Under the Stars and Stripes, November 4, 1847
● William Wells Brown / I Have No Constitution, and No Country, September 27, 1849
● Samuel Ringgold Ward / The Fugitive Slave Bill, March 25, 1850
● Lucy Stanton / A Plea for the Oppressed, August 27, 1850
● Reverend Jermain Wesley Loguen / I Won't Obey the Fugitive Slave Law, October 4, 1850
● Sojourner Truth / Ar'n't I a Woman?, May 29, 1851
● William G. Allen / Orators and Oratory, June 22, 1852
● Frederick Douglass / What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?, July 5, 1852
● Sojourner Truth / Snakes and Geese, September 7, 1853
● Stephen Pembroke / I Set Out to Escape from Slavery, July 18, 1854
● John Mercer Langston / There Is No Full Enjoyment of Freedom for Anyone in This Country, May 9, 1855
● William C. Nell / The Triumph of Equal School Rights in Boston, December 17, 1855
● Sara G. Stanley / What, to the Toiling Millions There, Is This Boasted Liberty?, January, 1856
● James T Holly / The Negro Race, Self-Government, and the Haitian Revolution, 1856
● Frances Ellen Watkins / Liberty for Slaves, May 13, 1857
● Frederick Douglass / If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress, August 3, 1857
● John S. Rock / I Will Sink or Swim with My Race, March 5, 1858
● Mary Ann Shadd / Break Every Yoke and Let the Oppressed Go Free, April 6, 1858
● Charles H Langston / Should Colored Men Be Subject to the Penalties of the Fugitive Slave Law?, 1858
● Sarah Parker Remond / Why Slavery Is Still Rampant, September 1859
● Robert Purvis / The American Government and the Negro, May 8, 1860
● H. Ford Douglas / I Do Not Believe in the Antislavery of Abraham Lincoln, July 4, 1860
● Frederick Douglass / A Plea for Free Speech, December 10, 1860
● Alfred M. Green / Let Us Take Up the Sword, April 20, 1861
● John S. Rock / What If the Slaves Are Emancipated?, January 23, 1862
● John S. Rock / We Ask for Our Rights, August 1, 1862
● Isaiah C. Wears / Lincoln's Colonization Proposal Is Anti-Christian, August 15, 1862
● Sarah Parker Remond / The Negroes in the United States of America, 1862
● Reverend Jonathan C. Gibbs / Freedom's Joyful Day, January 1, 1863
● Sarah J. Woodson / Address to the Youth, 1863
● Martin Robinson Delany / The Moral and Social Aspect of Africa, 1863
● Robert Purvis / The Good Time Is at Hand, May 12, 1863
● I. W C. Pennington / The Position and Duties of the Colored People, August 24, 1863
● J. Stanley / A Tribute to a Fallen Black Soldier, September 8, 1863
● Frederick Douglass / The Mission of the War, January 13, 1864
● Reverend J. P. Campbell / Give Us Equal Pay and We Will Go to War, February 29, 1864
● Arnold Bertonneau / Every Man Should Stand Equal Before the Law, April 12, 1864
● Henry Highland Garnet / Let the Monster Perish, February 12, 1865
● James Lynch / Colored Men Standing in the Way of Their Own Race, May, 1865
● Martin Robinson Delany / Advice to Ex-Slaves, July 1865
● F. Sella Martin / An Appeal for Aid to the Freedmen, November, 1865
● Lewis Hayden / Deliver Us from Such a Moses, December 27, 1865
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / We Are All Bound Up Together, May 1866
● Reverend E. J. Adams / These Are Revolutionary Times, March 19, 1867
● Sojourner Truth / Equal Rights for All, Three Speeches, May 9 and 10, 1867
● B. K. Sampson / To My White Fellow Citizens, November 1867
● Francis L. Cardozo / Break Up the Plantation System, January 14, 1868
● William H. Grey / Justice Should Recognize No Color, January 1868
● Reverend Henry McNeal Turner / I Claim the Rights of a Man, September 3, 1868
● Isaac Myers / Finish the Good Work of Uniting Colored and White Workingmen, August 18, 1869
● Frederick Douglass / Composite Nation, December 7, 1869
● Sojourner Truth / Then I Began to Live, January 1, 1871
● Hiram R. Revels / Abolish Separate Schools, February 8, 1871
● Isaiah C. Wears / The Ku Klux of the North, November 1871
● Mary Ann Shadd Cary / The Right of Women to Vote, c. January, 1872
● Henry Highland Garnet / A Plea in Behalf of the Cuban Revolution, December 13, 1872
● Robert Browne Elliott / The Civil Rights Bill, January 6, 1874
● John Mercer Langston / Equality before the Law, May 17, 1874
● James T Rapier / The Civil Rights Bill, February 4, 1875
● Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / he Great Problem to Be Solved, April 14, 1875
● Frederick Douglass / Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, April 14, 1876
● B. T Tanner / The Sioux's Revenge, July 13, 1876
● Reverend Henry McNeal Turner / How Long? How Long, O Heaven?, August 5, 1876
● Peter H. Clark / Socialism: The Remedy for the Evils of Society, July 2, 1877
● John E. Bruce / Reasons Why the Colored American Should Go to Africa, October 1877
● Alexander Crummell / The Destined Superiority of the Negro, November, 1877
● Robert.J.Harlan / Migration Is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs, May 8, 1879
● Ferdinand L. Barnett / Race Unity, May 9, 1879
● Blanche K. Bruce / Redeem the Indian, April 17, 1880
● John P. Green / These Evils Call Loudly for Redress, May 1884
● William H. Crogman / Negro Education—Its Helps and Hindrances, July 16, 1884
● John Jasper / The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain, July 20, 1884
● Reverend Henry McNeal Turner / Reasons for a New Political Party, February 12, 1886
● T.Thomas Fortune / The Present Relations of Labor and Capital, April 20, 1886
● Olivia A. Davidson / How Shall We Make the Women of Our Race Stronger?, April 21, 1886
● Frank J. Ferrell / Introduction of Master Workman Powderly, October 3, 1886
● Lucy E. Parsons / I Am an Anarchist, December 20, 1886
● Samuel Allen McElwee / Mob Violence, February 23, 1887
● Mary V. Cook / Woman's Place in the Work of the Denomination, August 26, 1887
● Reverend M. Edward Bryant / How Shall We Get Our Rights?, December 4, 1887
● Edward Everett Brown / Importance of Race Pride, March 5, 1888
● Frederick Douglass / Woman Suffrage, April 1888
● Frederick Douglass / I Denounce the So-Called Emancipation as a Stupendous Fraud, April 16, 1888
● John E. Bruce / Organized Resistance Is Our Best Remedy, October 5, 1889
● William Bishop Johnson / National Perils, October 20, 1889
● T.Thomas Fortune / It Is Time to Call a Halt, January 1890
● Clement Garnett Morgan / Harvard Class Day Oration, June 1890
● Joseph C. Price / Education and the Problem, July 1890
● Ida B. Wells / Lynch Law in All Its Phases, February 13, 1893
● Fannie Barrier Williams / The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States Since the Emancipation Proclamation, May 18, 1893
● Anna Julia Cooper / Women's Cause Is One and Universal, May 18, 1893
● Bishop Henry McNeal Turner / Justice or Emigration Should Be Our Watchword, November 1893
● William Saunders Scarborough / The Ethics of the Hawaiian Question, March 1894
● Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin / Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women, July 29, 1895
● Booker T Washington / Atlanta Exposition Address, September 18, 1895
● Thomas E. Miller / A Plea against the Disfranchisement of the Negro, October 26, 1895
● John H. Smyth / The African in Africa and the African in America, December 14, 1895
● John Hope / We Are Struggling for Equality, February 22, 1896
● Victoria Earle Matthews / The Awakening of the Afro-American Woman, July 11, 1897
● Mary Church Terrell / In Union There Is Strength, September 15, 1897
● Alexander Crummell / The Attitude of the American Mind toward the Negro Intellect, December 28, 1897
● G. N. Grisham / The Functions of the Negro Scholar, December 28, 1897
● Ida B. Wells-Barnett / Remarks to President McKinley, March 21, 1898
● Margaret Murray Washington / We Must Have a Cleaner "Social Morality", September 12, 1898
● Booker T Washington / The Cancer of Race Prejudice, October 18, 1898
● Reverend Francis J. Grimke / The Negro Will Never Acquiesce as Long as He Lives, November 20, 1898
● Reverend Charles S. Morris / The Wilmington Massacre, January 1899
● Reverend Charles S. Smith / The Fallacy of Industrial Education as the Solution of the Race Problem, January 28, 1899
● Reverend D. A. Graham / Some Facts about Southern Lynchings, June 4, 1899
● Lucy Craft Laney / The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman, July 1899
● Reverend D. P. Brown / The State of the Country from a Black Man's Point of View, August 1899
● Rosetta Douglass Sprague / My Mother as I Recall Her, May 10, 1900
● W. E. B. Du Bois / To the Nations of the World, July 25, 1900

● Index of Speeches by Author
● Subject Index

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Foner's "The Voice of Black America" (1972).

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