Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900An 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 Many are previously unpublished, uncollected, or long out of print.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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Índice
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 |
An Appeal for Aid to the Freedmen | 452 |
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 |
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 |
The Civil Rights Bill | 520 |
The Civil Rights Bill | 543 |
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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Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900 Philip Sheldon Foner,Robert J. Branham Visualização de excertos - 1998 |
Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900 Philip Sheldon Foner,Robert J. Branham,Robert Branham Pré-visualização indisponível - 1998 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives Elaine B. Richardson,Ronald L. Jackson Pré-visualização indisponível - 2004 |
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900 Studies in rhetoric and communication |
| Editores | Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham |
| Edição | revista |
| Editora | University of Alabama Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0817308482, 9780817308483 |
| Número de páginas | 925 páginas |
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