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245 00 Voices of the African American experience /|cedited by
Lionel C. Bascom.
264 1 Westport, Conn. :|bGreenwood Press,|c[2009]
264 4 |c©2009
300 1 online resource (3 volumes (717 pages)).
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490 0 Gale virtual reference library
500 Description based on print version record.
500 GMD: electronic resource.
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 v. 1. A narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and
surprizing delieverance of briton hammon, a negro man,--
servant to General Winslow, of Marshfield, in New-England;
who returned to Boston, after having been absent almost
thirteen years. Containing an account of the many
hardships he underwent from the time he left his masters
house, in the year 1747, to the time of his return to
Boston.--How he was cast away in the capes of Florida;--
the horrid cruelty and inhuman barbarity of the Indians in
murdering the whole ship's crew;--the manner of his being
carry'd by them into captivity. Also, an account of his
being confined four years and seven months in a close
dungeon,--and the remarkable manner in which he met with
his good old master in London; who returned to New-England,
a passenger, in the same ship / by Briton Hammon, 1760 ; A
narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life
of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African prince /
written by himself, 1774 ; Notes on the state of Virginia
/ by Thomas Jefferson, 1782 ; An address to the Negroes in
the state of New-York / by Jupiter Hammon, 1787 ; The
interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or
Gustavus Vassa, the African, 1789 ; The Fugitive Slave Act,
U.S. Congress, 1793 ; Printed letter / by Anthony New,
1794 ; A narrative of the life and adventures of Venture :
a native of Africa, but resident above sixty years in the
United States of America / related by himself, 1798 ; The
confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late
insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, 1832 ; John Quincy
Adams diary 41, 5 December 1836-4 January 1837, 29 July
1840-31 December 1841 ; Illinois state legislator Abraham
Lincoln opposes slavery, March 3, 1837 ; The church and
prejudice / by Frederick Douglass, November 4, 1841 ;
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American
slave / written by himself, 1845 ; Farewell to the British
people : an address delivered in London, England, March 30,
1847 / by Frederick Douglass ; Narrative of the life and
adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave / written by
himself, 1849 ; Excerpted from "Uncle Tom's story of his
life" an autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"), from 1789 to 1876 ;
The meaning of July fourth for the Negro / by Frederick
Douglass, July 5, 1852 ; Choice thoughts and utterances of
wise colored people ; Essay on slavery conditions / by
Francis Henderson, 1856 ; Supreme Court of the United
States in Dred Scott v. John F. Sanford, March 6, 1857 ;
Speech by Abraham Lincoln on the Dred Scott decision and
slavery, June 26, 1857 ; Our Nig, or, Sketches from the
life of a free Black, in a two-story white house, north /
by Harriet E. Wilson, 1859 ; Letters on American slavery
from Victor Hugo, de Tocqueville, Emile de Girardin,
Carnot, Passy, Mazzini, Humboldt, O. Lafayette--&c, 1860 ;
Correspondence between Lydia Maria Child and Gov. Wise and
Mrs. Mason, of Virginia, 1860 ; The Constitution of the
United States : is it pro-slavery or anti-slavery? / by
Frederick Douglass, March 26, 1860 --
505 8 History of American abolitionism : its four great epochs,
embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise
of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso,
negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues,
compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown
insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c.,
together with a history of the southern confederacy / by
F.G. De Fontaine, 1861 ; George Wils to writer's sister,
March 18, 1861 ; "Fighting rebels with only one hand,"
Douglass' monthly [The north star], September 1861 ;
Excerpt from The Gullah proverbs of 1861, down by the
riverside : a South Carolina slave community / by Charles
Joyner ; Excerpted from The Negroes at Port Royal, report
of E.L. Pierce, to the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1862 ; The Emancipation
Proclamation, 1863 ; William Tell Barnitz to the
Pennsylvania daily telegraph, March 27, 1863 ; Sojourner
Truth, the Libyan Sibyl / by Harriet Beecher Stowe, April
1863 ; The Negro in the regular army / by Oswald Garrison
Villard ; Our alma mater : notes on an address delivered
at Concert Hall on the occasion of the twelfth annual
commencement of the Institute for Colored Youth / by
Alumni Association, May 10, 1864 ; Excerpt reprinted from
"A colored man's reminiscences of James Madison" ; What
the black man wants : a speech delivered by Frederick
Douglass at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-
Slavery Society in Boston, April 1865 ; 14th Amendment,
1866 ; Letter from Amelia [unknown family name] to brother
Eddie, December 11, 1869 ; First annual address to the law
graduates of Allen University, class 1884 / given by D.
Augustus Straker, June 12, 1884 ; Emigration to Liberia,
report of the Standing Committee On Emigration of the
Board of Directors of the American Colonization Society,
unanimously adopted, Washington D.C. : January 20, 1885 ;
The future of the colored race / by Frederick Douglass,
May 1886 -- v. 2. Common sense in common schooling : a
sermon by Alex. Crummell, rector of St. Luke's Church,
Washington, D.C., September 13, 1886 ; The wonderful
eventful life of Rev. Thomas James / by himself, 1887 ; A
memorial souvenir of Rev. J. Wofford White, pastor of
Wesley M.E. Church, Charleston, S.C., who fell asleep,
January 7th, 1890, aged 33 years / by George C. Rowe
Clinton, 1890 ; What the southern Negro is doing for
himself / by Samuel J. Barrows, June 1891 ; In memoriam :
Sarah Partridge Spofford : born November 10, 1823,
departed May 11, 1892, substance of address by Rev. R. R.
Shippen at the funeral service, May 13, 1892 ; A noble
life : memorial souvenir of Rev. Jos. C. Price, D.D. / by
George C. Rowe Clinton, 1894 ; Light beyond the darkness /
by Frances E.W. Harper, 189-(?) ; Excerpted from Afro-
American encyclopedia, or, The thoughts, doings, and
sayings of the race : embracing addresses, lectures,
biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of
universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and
a history of the denominations, giving the numerical
strength of each. In fact, it teaches every subject of
interest to the colored people, as dicussed by more than
one hundred of their wisest and best men and women /
compiled and arranged by James T. Haley, 1895 --
505 8 Sermon preached by Rev. G. V. Clark, at Second
Congregational Church, Memphis, Tenn., Sunday morning,
June 16, 1895 ; The Atlanta compromise / by Booker T.
Washington, 1895 ; The higher education of the colored
people of the South, remarks of Hugh M. Browne, of
Washington D.C., 1896 ; Supreme Court of the United States
in Plessy vs. Ferguson 163 U.S. 537, 1896 ; Address of
Booker T. Washington, delivered at the alumni dinner of
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, after
receiving the honorary degree of "Master of Arts," June 24,
1896 ; How shall the colored youth of the South be
educated? / by A. D. Mayo, 1897 ; "Lift every voice and
sing," or, "The Negro national anthem" / by James Weldon
Johnson and John R. Johnson ; Commentary on The progress
of colored women by Mary Church Terrell / by Richard T.
Greener, 1898 ; A century of Negro migration / by Carter
G. Woodson ; An address by Booker T. Washington, prin.,
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee,
Alabama : delivered under the auspices of the Armstrong
Association, Lincoln Day exercises, at the Madison Square
Garden Concert Hall, New York, N.Y., February 12, 1898 ;
The progress of colored women / by Mary Church Terrell,
1898 ; The literary souvenir / by Miss Rosena C. Palmer,
Miss Lizzie L. Nelson, Miss Lizzie B. Williams ... [et
al.], volume 1, 1898 ; A Negro schoolmaster in the new
South / by W.E. Burghardt DuBois, 1899 ; A prayer : words
by B.G. Brawley, music by Arthur Hilton Ryder, 1899 ; The
Hardwick Bill : an interview in the Atlanta Constitution /
by Booker T. Washington, 1900 ; Nineteenth annual report
of the principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, for the year ending May 31,
1900 / submitted by Booker T. Washington ; Paths of hope
for the Negro : practical suggestions of a southerner / by
Jerome Dowd, 1900 ; The Freedmen's Bureau / by W.E.
Burghardt DuBois, March 1901 ; The free colored people of
North Carolina / by Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 1902 ; Of
the training of black men / by W.E.B. DuBois, September
1902 ; The Negro Development and Exposition Company of the
U.S.A., an address to the American Negro, 1907 ; The Negro
Development and Exposition Company of the U.S.A., an
address to the American Negro, on "separate but equal"
doctrines, 1907 ; The flat hunters : a musical satire on
moving day / by Junie McCree, 1914 ; The Negro genius / by
Benjamin Brawley, May 1915 ; Excerpt from the Marcus
Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
papers, 1919 ; A century of Negro migration, chapter 10 /
by Carter Godwin Woodson ; The soul of white folks / by
W.E.B. DuBois, 1920 ; Declaration of rights of the Negro
peoples of the world, 1920 ; The eruption of Tulsa / by
Walter White, June 29, 1921 ; The autobiography of Marcus
Garvey, 1923 ; Harlem / by Alain Locke, March 1925 ; Enter
the new Negro / by Alain Locke, March 1925 ; African
fundamentalism / by Marcus Garvey, 1925 ; A piece of saw /
by Theodore Ledyard Browne, May 1929 ; The South speaks /
by John Henry Hammond, Jr., April 26, 1933 --
505 8 The Pullman porters win / by Edward Berman, August 21,
1935 ; Deadhead : a Pullman porter steps out of character
/ by Jessie Carter, August 1935 ; September ghost town--
almost : the depression hits a Negro town / by Isabel M.
Thompson and Louise T. Clarke, September 1935 ; Harlem :
dark weather-vane / by Alain Locke, August 1936 ; Twenty-
one Negro spirituals, Americana No. 3 / recorded by So.
Carolina project workers, Effingham, South Carolina, 1937
; Amateur night in Harlem, "That's why darkies were born"
/ by Dorothy West, 1938 ; Temple of grace / by Dorothy
West, 1938 -- v. 3. Game songs and rhymes, interview with
Mrs. Laura M / by Dorothy West, October 1938 ; Afternoon
in a pushcart peddler's colony / by Frank Byrd, December
1938 ; Matt Henson, North Pole explorer retires / by
Theodore Poston, 1938-1939 ; Midlothian, Illinois : a
folklore in the making / by Alfred O. Phillipp, 1939 ;
Cocktail party : personal experience, Harlem hostess / by
Dorothy West, 1939 ; Down in the West Indies / by Ellis
Williams, January 1939 ; Laundry workers / by Vivian
Morris, March 1939 ; Worker's alliance / by Vivian Morris,
May 1939 ; "Early in the morning" / sung by Hollis (Fat
Head) Washington, May 23-25, 1939 ; "Got a woman on the
bayou" / sung by Ross (Po' Chance) Williams, Field Holler,
May 23-25, 1939 ; "If she don't come on de big boat" /
sung by W.D. (Alabama) Stewart, Field Holler, May 23-25,
1939 ; Jim Cole, Negro packinghouse worker / by Betty
Burke, July 1939 ; Negro life on a farm, Mary Johnson / by
Mrs. Ina B. Hawkes, October 27, 1939 ; Coonjine in
Manhattan / by Garnett Laidlaw Eskew, 1939 ; Harlem
parties / by Al Thayer, as told to Frank Byrd, 1939-1940 ;
Excerpt from Twelve million black voices / by Richard
Wright, 1941 ; The woman at the well / by James Baldwin,
1941 ; In a Harlem cabaret / by O'Neill Carrington, 1942 ;
Rendezvous with life : an interview with Countee Cullen /
by James Baldwin, 1942 ; Executive order 9981 / issued by
President Harry S. Truman on July 26, 1948 ; Taking Jim
Crow out of uniform : A. Philip Randolph and the
desegregation of the U.S. military--special report : the
integrated military--50 years / by Karin Chenoweth ; Ralph
Bunche biography, from Nobel lectures, peace 1950 ; Nobel
Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche, acceptance speech, 1950 ;
FBI investigation of Malcolm X, 1925-1964 ; Supreme Court
of the United States in Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954
; Negro as an American / by Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert C.
Weaver, Joseph P. Lyford, and John Cogley, 1963 ;
President Lyndon B. Johnson's address before a joint
session of the Congress, November 27, 1963 ; Excerpts from
78 Stat. 241, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ; "The ballot
or the bullet," delivered by Malcolm X in Cleveland, April
3, 1964 ; President Lyndon B. Johnson's radio and
television remarks upon signing the Civil Rights Bill,
July 2, 1964 --
505 8 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ; The Equal Employment
Opportunity Act, 1965 ; Statement on the articles of
impeachment / by Barbara Charline Jordan, July 25, 1974 ;
1976 Democratic National Convention keynote address / by
Barbara Charline Jordan, July 12, 1976 ; Q & A with singer
Alberta Hunter / by talk show host Dick Cavett, 1978 ;
1984 Democratic National Convention address / by Jesse
Jackson, July 18, 1984 ; 1988 Democratic National
Convention address / by Jesse Jackson, July 19, 1988 ;
Dorothy Gilliam interview, 1992 ; Oral history of bassist
Chuck Rainey / by Will Lee, 1992 ; Minister Louis
Farrakhan challenges black men--remarks made during the
Million Man March, October 17, 1995 ; The oral history of
Ruth Spaulding Boyd / interviewed by Serena Rhodie, 1996 ;
The oral history of Nathaniel B. White / interviewed by
Robb Carroll, 1996 ; From "Diana Ross" / by Jill Hamilton
from Rolling Stone, November 13, 1997 ; Interview with Dr.
William Anderson, June 16, 1998 ; The Temptations
interview / by Billboard magazine, July 22, 2000 ; 2000
Democratic National Convention keynote address / by
Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., August 15, 2000 ; Excerpts
from "Al Foster : drummer, gentleman, scholar" / Modern
drummer magazine, April 2003 ; Excerpts from "Steve Smith
: confessions of an ethnic drummer" / by Bill Milkowski,
Modern drummer magazine, May 2003 ; 2004 Democratic
National Convention keynote address / by Barack Obama,
July 27, 2004 ; 2004 Democratic National Convention
address / by Reverend Al Sharpton, July 28, 2004 ; Cindy
Birdsong : supreme replacement / by Jim Bagley, March 16,
2007 ; A more perfect union speech / Barack Obama, March
18, 2008 ; Barack Obama's election day speech, November 4,
2008.
520 Covers African American history in numerous documents;
examples include speeches, articles, mission statements,
ephemera, testimony, letters, sermons, prayers, spirituals
/songs, slave narratives, memoirs, essays, interviews, and
more.
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