Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900

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Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham
University of Alabama Press, 1998 - 925 Seiten
An anthology comprising 150-plus selections, making accessible the orations of both well-known and lesser-known African Americans. Each speech is presented with an introduction that sets the context. Many are previously unpublished, uncollected, or long out of print. The volume is based on Philip Foner's 1972 Voice of Black America. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Introduction
1
You Stand on the Level with the Greatest Kings on Earth
27
A Charge Delivered to the Brethren of the African Lodge
38
Pray God Give Us the Strength to Bear Up Under
45
Address to the People of Color
52
Universal Salvation
59
Abolition of the Slave Trade
66
A Thanksgiving Sermon
73
These Are Revolutionary Times
460
To My White Fellow Citizens
467
Justice Should Recognize No Color
473
Finish the Good Work of Uniting Colored
483
Then I Began to Live
503
Abolish Separate Schools
506
The Ku Klux of the North
512
The Civil Rights Bill
520

Mutual Interest Mutual Benefit and Mutual Relief
80
A Sermon Preached on the Funeral Occasion of Mary Henery
86
Valedictory Address
98
Termination of Slavery
104
The Necessity of a General Union Among Us
110
The Cause of the Slave Became My Own
121
Womens Cause Is One and Universal
129
Let Us Alone
130
Eulogy on William Wilberforce
143
Why a Convention Is Necessary
154
The Slave Has a Friend in Heaven Though He May Have
163
Slavery Brutalizes Man
173
Slavery Presses Down upon the Free People of Color
179
The Rights of Colored Citizens in Traveling
189
An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
198
For the Dissolution of the Union
205
The Fugitive Slave Bill
217
Arnt I a Woman?
226
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
246
Snakes and Geese
269
The Triumph of Equal School Rights in Boston
279
The Negro Race SelfGovernment and the Haitian Revolution
288
Liberty for Slaves
305
Break Every Yoke and Let the Oppressed Go Free
318
Why Slavery Is Still Rampant
328
A Plea for Free Speech
354
We Ask for Our Rights
368
Lincolns Colonization Proposal Is AntiChristian
375
Freedoms Joyful Day
381
The Moral and Social Aspect of Africa
389
The Position and Duties of the Colored People
397
A Tribute to a Fallen Black Soldier
407
Give Us Equal Pay and We Will Go to War
426
Let the Monster Perish
432
Colored Men Standing in the Way of Their Own Race
443
An Appeal for Aid to the Freedmen
452
Equality before the
536
The Civil Rights Bill
549
The Great Problem to Be Solved
564
The Siouxs Revenge
577
Reasons Why the Colored American Should Go to Africa
586
Migration Is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs
599
Redeem the Indian
607
These Evils Call Loudly for Redress
613
Negro EducationIts Helps and Hindrances
623
The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain
634
Reasons for a New Political Party
640
Introduction of Master Workman Powderly
652
Mob Violence
660
How Shall We Get Our Rights?
676
Woman Suffrage
687
Organized Resistance Is Our Best Remedy
707
It Is Time to Call a Halt
713
Harvard Class Day Oration
728
Education and the Problem
734
Lynch Law in All Its Phases
745
The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of
761
The Ethics of the Hawaiian Question
790
Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women
797
A Plea against the Disfranchisement of the Negro
805
The African in Africa and the African in America
815
We Are Struggling for Equality
832
In Union There Is Strength
840
The Attitude of the American Mind toward
846
The Functions of the Negro Scholar
857
We Must Have a Cleaner Social Morality
863
The Negro Will Never Acquiesce as Long as He Lives
872
The Fallacy of Industrial Education as
878
The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman
885
To the Nations of the World
905
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