Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham University of Alabama Press, 1998 - 925 من الصفحات 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 Many are previously unpublished, uncollected, or long out of print.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 |
by Cyrus Bustill September 18 1787 | 20 |
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 |
Finish the Good Work of Uniting Colored | 483 |
Then I Began to Live | 503 |
O Africa | 506 |
The Ku Klux of the North | 512 |
The Civil Rights Bill | 520 |
The Civil Rights Bill | 543 |
Valedictory Address | 564 |
The Siouxs Revenge | 577 |
Mutual Interest Mutual Benefit and Mutual Relief | 80 |
A Sermon Preached on the Funeral Occasion of Mary Henery | 86 |
Termination of Slavery | 104 |
The Necessity of a General Union Among | 110 |
The Cause of the Slave Became My | 121 |
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 | 173 |
Slavery Presses Down upon the Free People of Color | 179 |
The Rights of Colored Citizens in Traveling | 189 |
For the Dissolution of the Union | 205 |
A Plea for the Oppressed | 220 |
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 | 381 |
The Good Time Is at Hand | 392 |
A Tribute to a Fallen Black Soldier | 407 |
Give Us Equal Pay and We Will Go to | 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 |
These Are Revolutionary Times | 460 |
To My White Fellow Citizens | 467 |
The Condition and Prospects of Haiti | 579 |
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 |
Womens Cause Is One and Universal | 772 |
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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