Choose a Selection
Introduction
from Narrative of the Life of… / Frederick Douglass
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Spiritual
My Old Kentucky Home / Stephen Collins Foster
The Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe
The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln
Ain’t I a Woman? / Sojourner Truth
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
from Song of Myself and O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman
Do no weep, maiden… and A Man Said… / Stephen Crane
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Harriet Jacobs
3 selections / Abraham Lincoln
Farewell to His Army / Robert E. Lee
from Up From Slavery / Booker T. Washington
from An Appeal… / Lydia Marie Child
from Freedom Journal / John B. Russwurm
from Editorial in The Liberator / William Lloyd Garrison
from Appeal to the Christian Women… / Angelina Grimke
from Slavery / William Ellery Channing
from Argument before the Supreme Court… / Salmon P. Chase
