TY - BOOK AU - Foner,Philip Sheldon AU - Branham,Robert J. TI - Lift every voice: African American oratory, 1787-1900 T2 - Studies in rhetoric and communication SN - 0585140863 AV - E185.18 .L54 1998eb U1 - 973/.0496073 21 PY - 1998/// CY - Tuscaloosa, Ala. PB - University of Alabama Press KW - University of South Alabama KW - gnd KW - African Americans KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Sources KW - 19th century KW - Political oratory KW - United States KW - Speeches, addresses, etc., American KW - African American authors KW - Noirs am�ericains KW - 18e si�ecle KW - 19e si�ecle KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Ethnic Studies KW - African American Studies KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Quelle KW - Schwarze KW - ram KW - �Eloquence politique KW - �Etats-Unis KW - sears KW - American speeches KW - Gender & Ethnic Studies KW - hilcc KW - Social Sciences KW - Ethnic & Race Studies KW - USA KW - swd KW - Electronic books KW - Speeches KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 1. I Speak to Those Who Are in Slavery / Cyrus Bustill -- 2. You Stand on the Level with the Greatest Kings on Earth / John Marrant -- 3. A Charge Delivered to the Brethren of the African Lodge / Prince Hall -- 4. Pray God Give Us the Strength to Bear Up Under All Our Troubles / Prince Hall -- 5. Address to the People of Color / Abraham Johnstone -- 6. Eulogy for Washington / Richard Allen -- 7. Universal Salvation / Lemuel Haynes -- 8. Abolition of the Slave Trade / Peter Williams, Jr. -- 9. A Thanksgiving Sermon / Absalom Jones -- 10. Mutual Interest, Mutual Benefit, and Mutual Relief / William Hamilton -- 11. A Sermon Preached on the Funeral Occasion of Mary Henery / George White -- 12. O! Africa / William Hamilton -- 13. Valedictory Address / Margaret Odell -- 14. The Condition and Prospects of Haiti / John Browne Russwurm -- 15. Termination of Slavery / Austin Steward -- 16. The Necessity of a General Union Among Us / David Walker -- 17. Slavery and Colonization / Peter Williams, Jr. -- 18. The Cause of the Slave Became My Own / Sarah M. Douglass -- 19. It Is Time for Us to Be Up and Doing / Peter Osborne -- 20. Why Sit Ye Here and Die? / Maria W. Stewart -- 21. Let Us Alone / Nathaniel Paul -- 22. What If I Am a Woman? / Maria W. Stewart -- 23. Eulogy on William Wilberforce / William Whipper -- 24. The Slavery of Intemperance / William Whipper -- 25. Why a Convention Is Necessary / William Hamilton -- 26. Put On the Armour of Righteousness / James Forten, Jr. -- 27. The Slave Has a Friend in Heaven, Though He May Have None Here / Theodore S. Wright -- 28. On the Improvement of the Mind / Elizabeth Jennings -- 29. Prejudice Against the Colored Man / Theodore S. Wright -- 30. Slavery Brutalizes Man / Daniel A. Payne -- 31. We Meet the Monster Prejudice Every Where / Clarissa C. Lawrence -- 32. Slavery Presses Down upon the Free People of Color / Andrew Harris -- 33. Let Us Do Justice to an Unfortunate People / Thomas Paul -- 34. The Rights of Colored Citizens in Traveling / Charles Lenox Remond -- 35. We Must Assert Our Rightful Claims and Plead Our Own Cause / Samuel H. Davis -- 36. An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet -- 37. For the Dissolution of the Union / Charles Lenox Remond -- 38. I Am Free from American Slavery / Lewis Richardson -- 39. Under the Stars and Stripes / William Wells Brown -- 40. I Have No Constitution, and No Country / William Wells Brown -- 41. The Fugitive Slave Bill / Samuel Ringgold Ward -- 42. A Plea for the Oppressed / Lucy Stanton -- 43. I Won't Obey the Fugitive Slave Law / Jermain Wesley Loguen -- 44. Ar'n't I a Woman? / Sojourner Truth -- 45. Orators and Oratory / William G. Allen -- 46. What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass -- 47. Snakes and Geese / Sojourner Truth -- 48. I Set Out to Escape from Slavery / Stephen Pembroke -- 49. There Is No Full Enjoyment of Freedom for Anyone in This Country / John Mercer Langston -- 50. The Triumph of Equal School Rights in Boston / William C. Nell -- 51. What, to the Toiling Millions There, Is This Boasted Liberty? / Sara G. Stanley -- 52. The Negro Race, Self-Government, and the Haitian Revolution / James T. Holly -- 53. Liberty for Slaves / Frances Ellen Watkins -- 54. If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress / Frederick Douglass -- 55. I Will Sink or Swim with My Race / John S. Rock -- 56. Break Every Yoke and Let the Oppressed Go Free / Mary Ann Shadd -- 57. Should Colored Men Be Subject to the Penalties of the Fugitive Slave Law? / Charles H. Langston -- 58. Why Slavery Is Still Rampant / Sarah Parker Remond -- 59. The American Government and the Negro / Robert Purvis -- 60. I Do Not Believe in the Antislavery of Abraham Lincoln / H. Ford Douglas -- 61. A Plea for Free Speech / Frederick Douglass -- 62. Let Us Take Up the Sword / Alfred M. Green -- 63. What If the Slaves Are Emancipated? / John S. Rock -- 64. We Ask for Our Rights / John S. Rock -- 65. Lincoln's Colonization Proposal Is Anti-Christian / Isaiah C. Wears -- 66. The Negroes in the United States of America / Sarah Parker Remond -- 67. Freedom's Joyful Day / Jonathan C. Gibbs -- 68. Address to the Youth / Sarah J. Woodson -- 69. The Moral and Social Aspect of Africa / Martin Robinson Delany -- 70. The Good Time Is at Hand / Robert Purvis -- 71. The Position and Duties of the Colored People / J.W.C. Pennington -- 72. A Tribute to a Fallen Black Soldier / J. Stanley -- 73. The Mission of the War / Frederick Douglass -- 74. Give Us Equal Pay and We Will Go to War / J.P. Campbell -- 75. Every Man Should Stand Equal Before the Law / Arnold Bertonneau -- 76. Let the Monster Perish / Henry Highland Garnet -- 77. Colored Men Standing in the Way of Their Own Race / James Lynch -- 78. Advice to Ex-Slaves / Martin Robinson Delany -- 79. An Appeal for Aid to the Freedmen / J. Sella Martin -- 80. Deliver Us from Such a Moses / Lewis Hayden -- 81. We Are All Bound Up Together / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- 82. These Are Revolutionary Times / E.J. Adams -- 83. Equal Rights for All, Three Speeches / Sojourner Truth -- 84. To My White Fellow Citizens / B.K. Sampson -- 85. Break Up the Plantation System / Francis L. Cardozo -- 86. Justice Should Recognize No Color / William H. Grey -- 87. I Claim the Rights of a Man / Henry McNeal Turner -- 88. Finish the Good Work of Uniting Colored and White Workingmen / Isaac Myers -- 89. Composite Nation / Frederick Douglass -- 90. Then I Began to Live / Sojourner Truth -- 91. Abolish Separate Schools / Hiram R. Revels -- 92. The Ku Klux of the North / Isaiah C. Wears -- 93. The Right of Women to Vote / Mary Ann Shadd Cary -- 94. A Plea in Behalf of the Cuban Revolution / Henry Highland Garnet -- 95. The Civil Rights Bill / Robert Browne Elliott -- 96. Equality before the Law / John Mercer Langston -- 97. The Civil Rights Bill / James T. Rapier -- 98. The Great Problem to Be Solved / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- 99. Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Douglass -- 100. The Sioux's Revenge / B.T. Tanner -- 101. How Long? How Long, O Heaven? / Henry McNeal Turner -- 102. Socialism: The Remedy for the Evils of Society / Peter H. Clark -- 103. Reasons Why the Colored American Should Go to Africa / John E. Bruce -- 104. The Destined Superiority of the Negro / Alexander Crummell -- 105. Migration Is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs / Robert J. Harlan -- 106. Race Unity / Ferdinand L. Barnett -- 107. Redeem the Indian / Blanche K. Bruce -- 108. These Evils Call Loudly for Redress / John P. Green -- 109. Negro Education -- Its Helps and Hindrances / William H. Crogman -- 110. The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain / John Jasper -- 111. Reasons for a New Political Party / Henry McNeal Turner -- 112. The Present Relations of Labor and Capital / T. Thomas Fortune -- 113. How Shall We Make the Women of Our Race Stronger? / Olivia A. Davidson -- 114. Introduction of Master Workman Powderly / Frank J. Ferrell -- 115. I Am an Anarchist / Lucy E. Parsons -- 116. Mob Violence / Samuel Allen McElwee -- 117. Woman's Place in the Work of the Denomination / Mary V. Cook -- 118. How Shall We Get Our Rights? / M. Edward Bryant -- 119. Importance of Race Pride / Edward Everett Brown -- 120. Woman Suffrage / Frederick Douglass -- 121. I Denounce the So-Called Emancipation as a Stupendous Fraud / Frederick Douglass -- 122. Organized Resistance Is Our Best Remedy / John E. Bruce -- 123. National Perils / William Bishop Johnson -- 124. It Is Time to Call a Halt / T. Thomas Fortune -- 125. Harvard Class Day Oration / Clement Garnett Morgan -- 126. Education and the Problem / Joseph C. Price -- 127. Lynch Law in All Its Phases / Ida B. Wells -- 128. The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States Since the Emancipation Proclamation / Fannie Barrier Williams -- 129. Women's Cause Is One and Universal / Anna Julia Cooper -- 130. Justice or Emigration Should Be Our Watchword / Henry McNeal Turner -- 131. The Ethics of the Hawaiian Question / William Saunders Scarborough -- 132. Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women / Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - "Oratory has played a vital role in struggles for liberation and social reform throughout U.S. history. Containing more than 150 speeches, this volume represents the most extensive and diverse collection of African American oratory of the 18th and 19th centuries ever published."--Jacket UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=13536 ER -