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ContentsI. Freedom and Bondage in the Colonial Era
A. People & Events
II. Slavery and Religion• Lucy Terry Prince
• Venture Smith
• Phillis Wheatley
B. Historical Documents
• Fort Mose
• Venture Smith's narrative
• "Bars Fight"
• "Defense of Slavery in Virginia"
• The Marriage of Washington to Martha Custis
• Runaway ad for Jem
• Illustration for Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects
• Portrait of Phillis WheatleyC. Modern Voices
• John Ferling on Washington as a slave owner in Virginia
• John Ferling on Washington's attitudes towards slaves
• Norrece Jones on the relationship between white and black children
• Norrece Jones on Mt. Vernon
• Fath Ruffins on the division of slave labor
• Fath Ruffins on the supervision of women slaves
• Deborah Gray White on the relationship between white and black children
A. People & Events
III. Declarations of Independence• Andrew Bryan
• David George
• George Liele
• Lemuel Haynes
• First African Baptist Church of Savannah
B. Historical Documents
• Portrait of Lemuel Haynes
• Portrait of Yarrow Mamout
A. People & Events
IV. The Revolutionary War• Crispus Attucks
• Prince Hall
• The Boston Massacre
B. Historical Documents
• Portrait of Crispus Attucks in Boston Massacre
• "Of the Natural Rights of Colonists"
• "The Bloody Massacre..."
• "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth"
• Felix's petition
• Letter to Reverend Samson Occum
• Abigail Adams's letter to her husband
• The Watchman's Alarm
• Rough draft of the Declaration Of Independence
• Petition 1/13/1777
• The Declaration of IndependenceC. Modern Voices
• David Blight on the Declaration of Independence and morality
• John Kaminski on the Declaration of Independence
• John Kaminski on the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence
• Colin Powell on the Declaration of Independence and how it applied to black people
• Colin Powell on the spirit of liberty
A. People & Events
V. The Constitution and the New Nation• Runaways
• Colonel Tye
• Boston King
• Black Revolutionary seamen
• Free Black Patriots
• Maroons in the Revolutionary Period
B. Historical Documents
• Portrait of John Murray, Lord Dunmore
• Proclamation of Earl of Dunmore
• "A List of the Names of Provincials..."
• Runaway ad for Titus
• George Washington crossing the Delaware River by Sully
• George Washington crossing the Delaware River by Leutze
• Bill of Sale for drumheads, Prince Hall to Boston Regiment
• Portrait of a black Revolutionary War sailor
• American foot soldiers, Yorktown campaign
• Battle of Cowpens
• Boston King's memories of the evacuation from New York
• British pass issued to black Loyalist
• The Book of NegroesC. Modern Voices
• Colin Powell on blacks fighting during the Revolutionary War
• Fath Ruffins on blacks' reaction to Dunmore's Proclamation
• Margaret Washington on the formation of maroon communities
• Margaret Washington on Colonel Tye
• Deborah Gray White on the Revolutionary period
• Betty Wood on blacks fighting in the American Revolution
• Betty Wood on blacks leaving the U.S. with the British
• Peter Wood on the evacuation of slaves in New York
• Peter Wood on black men during the Revolutionary War
• Betty Wood on Dumore's Proclamation and the fear of slave rebellion
• Betty Wood on controlling slaves after Dunmore's Proclamation
• Peter Wood on Dunmore's Proclamation's effect on the war
• Betty Wood on the significance of Dunmore's Proclamation
A. People
• Benjamin Banneker
• Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett)
• Agrippa Hull
B. Historical Documents
• Portrait of Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett)
• The Quock Walker case: "Instructions to the Jury"
• Cato's letter and petition to the Pennsylvania Assembly
• Sedgewick and Hull letter to Rush
• Portrait of Agrippa Hull
• Pro-slavery petitions in Virginia
• Washington's letter to Robert Morris
• The Boston Plan
• The Constitution
• "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?"
• The Constitutional Convention, 1787
• The Washington Family
• Banneker's letter to Jefferson
• Jefferson's reply to Banneker
• A Memorial to the South Carolina Senate
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
• Benjamin Banneker's Almanac
• Petition of Prince Witten
• FloraC. Modern Voices
• John Kaminski on post-war America in the 1780s
• John Kaminski on the word "slavery" in the Constitution
• Fath Ruffins on slavery's decline at the end of the Revolutionary War
• Fath Ruffins on free blacks at the end of the Revolutionary War
• Margaret Washington on Elizabeth Freeman
