Table of Contents
Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph (1700)
Benjamin Lay, All Slave Keepers that Keep the Innocent in Bondage (1737) Benjamin Franklin, A Conversation on Slavery (1770) Patrick Henry, Letter to John Alsop (1773) John Newton, Hymn XLI (1779) Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791) Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, "Tea-Table Talk" (1832) William Lloyd Garrison, “To the Public” and “Truisms” (1831) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Witnesses" (1841) Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" (1852) |