Acknowledgments

Introduction

``A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia'' (1794)

Absalom Jones

Richard Allen

``A Charge'' (1797)

Prince Hall

``A Dialogue Between a Virginian and an African Minister'' (1810)

Daniel Coker

``Series of Letters by a Man of Colour'' (1813)

James Forten

``An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade'' (1814)

Russell Parrott

``An Address before the Pennsylvania Augustine Society'' (1818)

Prince Saunders

``Ethiopian Manifesto'' (1829)

Robert Alexander Young

``Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World'' (1829, 1830)

David Walker

``Address to the National Convention of 1834'' (1834)

William Hamilton

``Address Delivered Before the African Female Benevolent Society of Troy'' (1834)

Elizabeth Wicks

``Productions'' (1835)

Maria W. Stewart

``Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania'' (1837)

Robert Purvis

``New York Committee of Vigilance for the Year 1837, together with Important Facts Relative to Their Proceedings'' (1837)

David Ruggles

``Address to the Slaves of the United States of America'' (1848)

Henry Highland Garnet

``Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored People'' (1847)

``Report of the Proceedings of the Colored National Convention ... held in Cleveland'' (1848)

``Essay on the Character and Condition of the African Race'' (1852)

John W. Lewis

``A Plea for Emigration, or Notes of Canada West'' (1852)

Mary Ann Shadd

``Address to the People of the United States'' (1853)

Frederick Douglass

``Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent'' (1854)

Martin Delany

``The History of the Haitian Revolution'' (1855)

William Wells Brown

``An Appeal to the Females of the African Methodist Episcopal Church'' (1857)

Mary Still

``A Vindication of the Capacity of the Negro for Self-Governement and Civilized Progress'' (1857)

J. Theodore Holly

``The English Language in Liberia'' (1861)

Alexander Crummell

``Negro Self-Respect and Pride of Race'' (1862)

T. Morris Chester

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