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...The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women met in New York City in May, 1837. Members at the Convention came from all walks of life and included such prominent women as Mary Parker, Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, and Lydia Mari...

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Excerpt: Up from Slavery. An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington.

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...T. WASHINGTON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the P... ...ument or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Booker T. Washington Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington This volume is dedicated ... ...my work while at Tuskegee. Without the painstaking and generous 4 UP FROM SLAVERY assistance of Mr. Max Bennett Thrasher I could not have succeeded i... ...he details of Mr. Washington’s early life, as frankly set down in “Up from Slavery,” do not give quite a whole view of his education. He had the train... ... freed- man in quest of education. But on the plantation and in 6 UP FROM SLAVERY the cabin they had never been sung as these thousand stu- dents san... ...ghtful students of Southern life. Handi- crafts were taught in the days of slavery on most well- managed plantations. But Tuskegee is, nevertheless, a... ... the South, where, in its constructive period, he was necessar- 8 UP FROM SLAVERY ily misunderstood by his own people as well as by the whites, and w... ...hem by tiresome and unbalanced “reformers”) are “Uncle Remus” and “Up from Slavery”; for these are the great literature of the subject. One has all th...

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...Excerpt: In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and in various writ ings since, I have given the public what I considered very good reasons for withholding the manner of my escape. In substance these reasons were, first, that such p...

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Contents MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY ...... 4 RECONSTRUCTION ..................... 16

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...ouglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pen... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. Contents MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY ...... 4 RECONSTRUCTION ..................... 16 4 MY ESCAPE FROM ... ...rated Magazine, November 1881. I N THE FIRST NARRATIVE of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and in various writ ings since, I ... ...ons were, first, that such publication at any time during the existence of slavery might be used by the master against the slave, and prevent the futu... ... slave, have, like Charles T. Torrey, perished in prison. The abolition of slavery in my native State and throughout the country, and the lapse of tim... ...on hitherto observed no longer necessary . But even since the abolition of slavery, I have sometimes thought it well enough to baffle curiosity by say... ... sometimes thought it well enough to baffle curiosity by saying that while slavery ex- isted there were good reasons for not telling the manner of my ... ...there were good reasons for not telling the manner of my escape, and since slavery had ceased to exist, there was no reason for telling it. I shall no...

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...A review of events prior to, during and following the American Civil War bringing an insightful perspective on Lincoln's true attitude toward slavery and emancipation. (Summary by Guero)...

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...lf with looking at the argument this way: If a man is not allowed to know his own name in a free country, how much is he allowed to know in a land of slavery? As to looking at the argument through the medium of the Register, Willum Marigold come into the world before Registers come up much,--and went out of it too. They wouldn?t have been greatly in his line neither, if th...

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...is own name in a free country, how much is he allowed to know in a land of slavery? As to looking at the argument through the medium of the Register,...

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...; but let me ask you a few ques- tions. Have we ever had any peace on this slavery question? When are we to have peace upon it, if it is kept in the p... ...n end? He intro- duced the Nebraska Bill in 1854 to put another end to the slavery agitation. He promised that it would finish it all up im- mediately... ...i- tution, in which he has not declared that we are just at the end of the slavery agitation. But in one speech, I think last winter, he did say that ... ...hink last winter, he did say that he did n’t quite see when the end of the slavery agitation would come. Now he tells us again that it is all over and... ...w is it over? That was only one of the at- tempts at putting an end to the slavery agitation—one of these “final settlements.” Is Kansas in the Union?... ...ikely to settle it than every one of these previous attempts to settle the slavery agitation? Now, at this day in the history of the world we can no m... ... in the history of the world we can no more foretell where the end of this slavery agitation will be than we can see the end of the world itself. The ... ...d still be among us. I say, then, there is no way of putting an end to the slavery agitation amongst us but to put it back upon the basis where our fa... ...he course of ultimate extinction. That is one way of putting an end to the slavery agitation. The other way is for us to surrender and let Judge Dougl...

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...l Legislature to do everything else, and cannot authorize them to prohibit slavery. That is one of the things the court can decide, but can never give... ...e will it end?” These questions imply that those who ask them consider the slavery question a very insignificant matter they think that it amounts to ... ...ti- ated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has no... ...ed. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public ... ...tiated with the avowed object and confident promise of put- ting an end to slavery agitation. On the fourth day of January, 1854, Judge Douglas introd... ...cy, and that policy, so he says, was to put an end to the agitation of the slavery question. Whether that was his object or not I will not stop to dis... ...Nebraska bill would tran- quilize the whole country—there would be no more slavery agitation in or out of Congress, and the vexed question would be le... ...Washington during the last season of Congress lead you to suppose that the slavery agitation was settled? An election was held in Kansas in the month ... ...ability that she will remain out for some time. But Judge Douglas says the slavery question is settled. He says the bill he introduced into the Senate...

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...e with whom only he can ever have a real sympathy—the sincere opponents of slavery. It will be a mistake if he shall allow the provocations offered hi... ...rol, and influential citizens in each, owners of slaves and ad- vocates of slavery at the beginning of the rebellion, now de- clare openly for emancip... ...f which three years ago would tolerate any restraint upon the extension of slavery into new Territories, dispute now only as to the best mode of remov... ...to the Union under it, why also to the laws and proclamations in regard to slavery? Those laws and proc- lamations were enacted and put forth for the ... ... to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation or by any ... ... the constitution is so modified as to declare that there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in the punishment of crimes where... ...bellion means more and tends to do more than the perpetu- ation of African slavery—that it is, in fact, a war upon the rights of all working people. ... ...mlette and Senator Dixon. It was about as fol- lows: “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember whe... ...ractically indulge my primary abstract judg- ment on the moral question of slavery. I had publicly declared this many times, and in many ways. And I...

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...ade a gesture of deprecation. ‘For me it will be ruin; for my poor fellows slavery; that is, if we survive the onset. Madame, I entreat of you, take s... ...hers, surprised it, sacked it, and carried off four hundred prisoners into slavery. Holy Mother defend us! Here are all the rogues coming to see 60 A... ...urned the word ‘Cabeleyzes,’ with gestures signifying throat-cut- ting and slavery, also that these present hosts regarded them as banditti. How far o... ... any longer with him, and bidding him think over what had been said, since slavery or Islam were the only alterna- tives, returned to the tents of mer... ...r than the scum of the port of Eyemouth. For himself and the boy, what did slavery mean? He hoped to understand better from Yusuf, and at any rate to ... ...is ill that his heart is blind. Once again, young man, Issa Ben Mariam and slavery, or Mohammed and freedom?’ ‘I cannot deny my Lord Christ.’ There wa... ...he nights were chill. Long did Arthur lie awake under the strange sense of slavery and helplessness, and utter uncertainty as to his fate, expecting, ... ...ne Renouf. The Cabeleyzes are taking us away to their mountains. We are in slavery, in hunger, filth, and deprivation of all things. We 111 Yo n g e ...

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...ink from the sublime height of motherhood to the somber depths of unmodified slavery, the abyss of separa tion between her and her boy was complete. ... ...erlin to earn the liquidation money. It took us two years to get out of that slavery. We traveled all about Germany, receiving no wages, and not even ... ...“Well, madam, the rest is not of much consequence. When we escaped from that slavery at twelve years of age, we were in some respects men. Experience ... ...as dumb for a moment; then he said: “Do you mean that you would be sold into slavery to save me?” “Ain’t you my chile? En does you know anything dat a... ...thers is all de same. De good lord he made ‘em so. I’s gwine to be sole into slavery, en in a year you’s gwine to buy yo’ ole mammy free ag’in. I’ll s... ...wn son could be guilty of treason to a mother who, in voluntarily going into slavery—slavery of any kind, mild or severe, or of any duration, brief or... ...s broken. The young fellow upon whom she had inflicted twenty three years of slavery continued the false heir’s pension of thirty five dollars a month...

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...iend came over to assert? We have drove pop- ery out of the nation, and sent slavery to foreign climes. The The Bickerstaff Partridge Papers – Swift ...

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...none the less judicious and profound. While we were fully conscious of the slavery to which youth is condemned, we were amazed at the brutal indiffer-...

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... For I call it valiant, With my father’s beliefs from old Virginia: Hating slavery, but no less war. I, full of spirit, audacity, courage Thrown into ... ...m must be The symbol and the medium to release From life’s denial and from slavery, Then give me rum!” Exultant cri...

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... twenty- pounders were those unhappy criminals who were sent over- seas to slavery in North America, or the still more unhappy innocents who were kidn... ...e to an end; but in those days of my youth, white men were still sold into slavery on the planta- tions, and that was the destiny to which my wicked u... ... sailor’s stories: that it was a place where lads were put to some kind of slavery called a trade, and where apprentices were continually lashed and c...

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...res and republics re- placed one another, Italy tried a vast experiment in slavery, and indeed slavery was tried again and again and failed and failed... ...bsolutely impossible. As well might the council have proposed a revival of slavery. The capitalist system had already been smashed beyond repair by th...

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...e youths were not slain by Minos, but spent the remainder of their days in slavery in Crete; that the Cretans, in former times, to acquit themselves o... ...rding to the mildest form of the story, to live vilely and dishonorably in slavery to insulting and cruel men; it is not to be expressed what an act o... ...engaged their body for the debt, and might be seized, and either sent into slavery at home, or sold to strang- ers; some (for no law forbade it) were ... ...or a disposition to serve, would never sell himself and his coun- try into slavery to a barbarous and hostile nation. Notwithstanding this, the people... ... complete the punishment of the citizens for refusing to submit to that of slavery to the rich. By such addresses, the people were so possessed, that ... ...Pelopidas never after any victory put men to death, or reduced citizens to slavery. And we are told, too, that the Thebans would not, had these been p... ...onians of an invader, at the head of a barbarian army, carrying everywhere slavery and destruction on his sword’s point; when in lieu of such an one, ... ...slip, and struck up a peace with him, leaving Sparta to bewail an unworthy slavery; whether it were that he feared, if the war should be protracted, R... ...e to be taken captives, were sold about here and there, and dispersed into slavery; twelve hundred in number were at that time in Greece. The reverse ...

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...ow given your service three months’ trial, and I find it the most nauseous slavery under the sun. Seek another clerk. I stay no longer.” “What I do yo... ...a wife’s nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Against slavery all right thinkers revolt, and though torture be t...

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...m, and though he destroyed 17 Thackeray his oppressor, only increased his slavery; holding him in as pain- ful a bondage as he had suffered under the...

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.... Massacre, For this I prayed, would on thy sleep have crept, T reason and Slavery, Rapine, Fear, and Lust, And stifled thee, their minister. I know ... ...my brow Unlinked with hope that thou wouldst free This world from its dark slavery, _70 That thou—O awful Lovelines...

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...posite effects, the symbols of which exist in two grand figures of ancient slavery, Epictetus and Spartacus,—hatred and evil feelings on the one hand,...