Choose a Selection

 Introduction

 from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin / Benjamin Franklin

 Speech in the Virginia Convention / Patrick Henry

 To S. M., a Young African Painter... / Phillis Wheatley

 Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson

 Letter to John Adams / Abigail Adams

 from Letters from an… / J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur

 from Common Sense and Crisis, No. 1 / Thomas Paine

 from Remarks Concerning the Natives… / Benjamin Franklin