1850s
Douglass, Frederick. "West India Emancipation." 3 Aug. 1857, Canandaigua, NY, USA.
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 27, st. 4.
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 27, st. 4.
Douglass, Frederick. "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Independence Day Celebration. 5 July 1852, Corinthian Hall, Rochester, NY, USA.
Douglass, Frederick. "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings, edited by David W. Blight. Library of America, 2022.
Lincoln, Abraham. "A House Divided." 16 Jun. 1858, Springfield, IL, USA.
Lincoln, Abraham. "'House Divided' Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.
Douglass, Frederick. "The Fugitive Slave Law." National Free Soil Convention. 11 Aug. 1852, Pittsburg, PA, USA.
Douglass, Frederick. "The Fugitive Slave Law." The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches. Hackett Publishing Company, 2016.
Berlioz, Hector. Personal letter. Nov. 1856.
Marx, Karl. "Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Napoleon [The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon]." Die Revolution [The Revolution], 1852.
Marx, Karl. "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon." The Political Writings, edited by David Fernbach. Verso, 2019.
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 132.
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 132.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin." 30 Sept. 1859, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, preface.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-2 Editions. Library of America, 2011, preface to 1855 edition.
Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.
Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 18.
Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 2.
Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Lost Speech." Anti-Nebraska Bloomington Convention, First Republican State Convention of Illinois. 29 May 1856, Major's Hall, Bloomington, IL, USA.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Bloomington, Illinois, May 29, 1856." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.
Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 2.
Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.
Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 3.
Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin Classics, 2009, ch. 3.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, preface.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-2 Editions. Library of America, 2011, preface to 1855 edition.
Truth, Sojourner. Speech in Ohio. Woman's convention. May 1851, Akron, Ohio, USA.
Truth, Sojourner. "Ain't I a Woman?" Great Speeches by African Americans, edited by James Daley. Dover Publications, 2006.
Douglass, Frederick. Speech in New York City. American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society annual meeting. 11 May 1853, New York City, NY, USA.
Douglass, Frederick. "A Nation in the Midst of a Nation (1853)." The Speeches of Frederick Douglass, edited by John R. McKivigan, Julie Husband and Heather L. Kaufman. Yale University Press, 2018.