Part 1: 1450-1750 Part 2: 1750-1805 <---Part 3: 1791-1831 Part 4: 1831-1865

Contents

I. Philadelphia

A. People & Events
• Anthony Benezet
• Benjamin Rush
• Founding of Pennsylvania Abolition Society
• French West Indian refugees in Philadelphia
• The Yellow Fever epidemic

B. Historical Documents

• Benezet Instructing Colored Children
• Portrait of Benjamin Rush
• The Accident in Lombard Street
• Constitution and Minutes of the PAS
• "Address to the Public"
• Thomas Jefferson by Peale
• Extracts from journal of Elizabeth Drinker
• Mortality
• A Short Account of the Malignant Fever...
• A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People...
• Map of Philadelphia, c. 1796
• Back of State House, Philadelphia
• Pepper-Pot: A Scene in the Philadelphia Market

C. Modern Voices

• John Edgar Wideman on the Yellow Fever epidemic
• Julie Winch on Jones' and Allen's response to Carey

II. Freedom and Resistance

A. People & Events
• The Douglass family
• The Forten women

B. Historical Documents

• Preamble of the Free African Society
• Fourth of July Celebration in Centre Square
• Specimen of Modern Printing Types, No. 844
• "Is Miss Dinah at Home? "
• "Grand Celebration Ob De Bobalition Ob African Slabery"
• "Black Charge"
• William McLean, "Offended Dignity"
• Appendix to Memorial to Pennsylvania Legislature
• Beneficial and Charitable Societies
• Beneficial Societies
• Letter to William Basset
• Schools

III. The Black Church

A. People & Events
• Richard Allen
• Sara Allen
• Rebecca Cox Jackson

B. Historical Documents

• Absalom Jones's marriage to Mary
• Portrait of Richard Allen
• Rush's letter to Julia Rush
• Goal, [Jail] in Walnut Street Philadelphia
• "A Discourse...African Church"
• "The Causes and Motives for Establishing St. Thomas's African Church..."
• Church on John's Island
• A portrait of Sara Allen
• Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
• Portrait of Absalom Jones
• Rush's letter to Samuel Bayard
• Black People's Prayer Meeting
• Sheriff's sale
• Portrait of Morris Brown
• Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee
• Richard Allen in Walker's Appeal
• Excerpt from Gifts of Power, Rebecca Cox Jackson
• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen...
• Portrait of Jarena Lee
• Meeting in the African Church, Cincinnati, Ohio


C. Modern Voices

• Catherine Brekus on Jarena Lee
• Albert Raboteau on Jarena Lee's conversion
• Margaret Washington on Jarena Lee's conversion

IV. Colonization

A. People & Events
• American Colonization Society

B. Historical Documents

• Memoir of Captain Paul Cuffee, Liverpool Mercury
• A portrait of James Forten
• Meeting of Free People of Color of Richmond, Virginia
• Forten letter to Cuffe
• Camp's letter to Caldwell
• American Colonization Society: a Memorial to the United States Congress
• "Address to the Free People of Colour of these United States"

C. Modern Voices

• Douglas Egerton on the black support for the ACS
• Douglas Egerton on black response to colonization
• Emma Lapsansky on the American Society of Free Persons of Colour
• Albert Raboteau on Allen's reaction to the ACS
• Julie Winch on black support for the ACS and the Bethel meeting

V. Conspiracy and Rebellion

A. People & Events
• The Haitian Revolution
• Gabriel's Conspiracy
• Florida's Negro Fort
• The Vesey Conspiracy
• Nat Turner's Rebellion

B. Historical Documents

• Declaration of the Rights of Man
• "Revenge Taken by the Black Army"
• Toussaint L'Ouverture
• Jefferson's letter to James Monroe
• Rebel's statement from Gabriel's Conspiracy
• Confession of Solomon
• Tobias Lear to Madison
• Plan of Fort Gadsden
• "Reflections, Occasioned by the late Disturbances in Charleston "
• Denmark Vesey brought before the Court
• Sentence of Gullah Jack
• Confession of Monday Gell
• The Richmond Enquirer on Nat Turner's Rebellion
• "The Confessions of Nat Turner"
• Nat Turner preaches religion
• Discovery of Nat Turner
• "Fear of Insurrection"

C. Modern Voices

• Douglas Egerton on the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint L'Ouverture, and Jefferson
• Julius Scott on John Brown Russworm and the Haitian Revolution

VI. Growth and Entrenchment of Slavery

A. People
• Kidnapping in Pennsylvania

B. Historical Documents

• Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
• Cotton gin petition
• Eli Whitney's cotton gin
• Petition of the "People of Colour... Philadelphia"
• Jones's sermon on the abolition of the international slave trade
• "The Author noting down the narratives..."
• Missouri Compromise
• "A Slave Is Tortured"
• Jim Crow
• "Kidnapping a free Negro to be sold into slavery"
• Charles Ball's narrative: Fifty Years in Chains
• List & Inventory of Negroes on Plantation...
• The Cotton Press

C. Modern Voices

• David Blight on Jacksonian democracy
• David Blight on minstrelsy
• Douglas Egerton on the "positive good" theory of slavery
• Douglas Egerton on cotton
• Norrece Jones on kidnapping and class
• Emma Lapsansky on kidnapping in Philadelphia
• Margaret Washington on the impact of the cotton gin
• Julie Winch on the economic impetus for kidnapping
• Julie Winch on the kidnapping of children





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