Genre:  Historical Documents

Historical Documents

•  Thomas Jefferson, from Second Inaugural Address (1805)
•  Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Colonel William Duane(1811)
•  Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Coles(1814)
•  Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Jospeh C. Cabell(1816)
•  Percy Bysshe Shelley, from An Address to the People on the Death of Princess Charlotte (1817)
•  Benjamin Constant, The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns (1819)
•  Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams(1821)
•  G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History from Part IV, "The German World," Chapter III, "The Exlaircissement and Revolution"(c. 1823-1827)
•  François-René de Chateaubriand, Travels in America from "The Eastern Cities"(1827)
•  David Walker, from An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)
•  William Lloyd Garrison, from "An Address to the American Colonization Society," (1829)
•  Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America from Chapters XI, XIV, and XVIII(1835)
•  Salmon Portland Chase and Charles Dexter Cleveland, Anti-Slavery Addresses (1844-1845)
•  S.J. May, "The Liberty Bell is not of the Liberty Party," Liberty Bell (1845)
•  S. Margaret Fuller, "The Liberty Bell," Liberty Bell (1846)
•  James Haughton, "Liberty," Liberty Bell (1849)
•  Ephraim Nute, Jr., "The Leaven of Liberty," Liberty Bell (1851)
•  Frederick Douglass, from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?," (1852)
•  John C. Calhoun, from A Disquisition on Government (1853)
•  Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom from Chapter XI, "A Change"(1855)
•  Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman from Chapter XI, "Thoughts on Freedom"(1857)
•  John Stuart Mill, On Liberty Chapter III: "On Individuality"(1859)
•  Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The Emancipation Proclamation," Miscellanies (1862)
•  Abraham Lincoln, Final Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
•  Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863)
•  John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women from Chapter 4(1869)
•  Saum Song Bo, "A Chinese View of the Statue of Liberty," (1885)