Abolitionist
Douglass, Frederick. "We are Confronted by a New Administration." 23rd Anniversary of the Emancipation of Slaves. 16 Apr. 1885, Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church, Washington, DC, USA.
Douglass, Frederick. "The United States Cannot Remain Half-Slave and Half-Free." Twenty-first anniversary of Emancipation. 16 April 1883, Congregational Church, Washington, DC, USA.
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. "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.
Douglass, Frederick. "Southern Barbarism." Twenty-Fourth Anniversary of Emancipation. 16 April 1886, Washington, DC, USA.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Woman's Sphere." The Chimney-Corner. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868.
Beecher, Henry Ward. Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887.
Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of Henry Box Brown. Boston: Brown & Stearns, 1849.
Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of the Live of Henry Box Brown. Dover Publications, 2015.
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
Child, Lydia Maria. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833, ch. 6.
Sumner, Charles. "Slavery and the Rebellion." 5 Nov. 1864, Cooper Institute, New York City, NY, USA.
Phillips, Wendell. Speech in Boston. Massachusetts Antislavery Society meeting. 28 Jan. 1852, The Melodeon, Boston, MA, USA.
A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion
Parker, Theodore. A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1842.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly." The National Era, 5 June 1851 - 1 Apr. 1852.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin, edited by Elizabeth Ammons. W. W. Norton & Company, 2017, ch. 33.
Douglass, Frederick. Speech at the World's Columbian Exposition. World's Columbian Exposition. 25 Aug. 1893, Chicago, IL, USA.
Douglass, Frederick. Quoted in From Battlefields Rising: How The Civil War Transformed American Literature, written by Randall Fuller. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Douglass, Frederick. "The Present and Future of the Colored Race in America." 15 May 1863, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York City, NY, USA.
Quoted in The Liberator
Garrison, William Lloyd. "To the Public." The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831.
Brown, John. Quoted in John Brown and His Men, written by R. J. Hinton. Funk and Wagnals, 1894. Originally was his last written words, 2 Dec. 1859.