The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Concise Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction
  • Publication Date: March 1, 2023
  • ISBN: 9781554816194 / 155481619X
  • 1528 pages; 7¾" x 9⅜"

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The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Concise Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction

  • Publication Date: March 1, 2023
  • ISBN: 9781554816194 / 155481619X
  • 1528 pages; 7¾" x 9⅜"

About the Anthology

Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, The Broadview Anthology of American Literature balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with a thoroughgoing reassessment of the canon that emphasizes American literature’s diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas. This concise volume represents American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, offering a more streamlined alternative to the full two-volume set covering the same timespan.

Highlights of Concise Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction

  • • Complete texts of Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; and Benito Cereno
  • • In-depth thematic sections on such topics as “Rebellions and Revolutions,” “Print Culture and Popular Literature,” and “Expansion, Native American Expulsion, and Manifest Destiny”
  • • More extensive coverage of Indigenous oral and visual literature and African American oral literature than in competing anthologies
  • • Full author sections in the anthology are devoted to authors such as Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Briton Hammon, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, José María Heredia, Black Hawk, and many others
  • • Extensive online component offers well over a thousand pages of additional readings and other resources

Comments

Comments on Concise Volume 1

“This single yet capacious volume impressively captures the flourishing diversity, cultural and geographical, of American literature from its earliest years through the period of Reconstruction. (A broad view, indeed!) Furthermore, its selection of literary texts is greatly enhanced by its generous attention to historical contexts. Notes drawn from recent scholarship are judicious and helpful, and the wonderful variety of images reproduced here illustrate the rich history of print culture in America. This anthology constitutes a new standard for the teaching of American literature.”
John Hay, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

“I am very much looking forward to the arrival of the Broadview Concise Anthology of American Literature. One thing that distinguishes this anthology is its commitment to presenting authors of color in conversation with their white counterparts. The editors offer thoughtful selections from authors like Olaudah Equiano, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, George Moses Horton, and Harriet Jacobs (to name some standouts). But Broadview further offers selections on abolition, racial identity, and colonialism from white authors like Franklin, Lydia Sigourney, Longfellow, and Melville, whose investment in such issues might be less familiar to students. The intersection between these selections serves to integrate authors of color into the fabric of American experience, rather than isolating them.”
Vera Foley, Gustavus Adolphus College

Comments on Volumes A & B

“The Broadview Anthology is, quite simply, a breakthrough. From reproducing essential canonical texts to recovering unjustly forgotten ones, the editors offer a remarkably panoramic collection of American literature…. Meticulously researched and expertly assembled, the Broadview should be the new gold standard for scholars and teachers alike.”
Michael D’Alessandro, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Theater Studies, Duke University

“This is a literary anthology for a new generation, one that meets students where they live: both on the printed page and online. … I will be teaching with this anthology, and am confident that my classes will be greatly enriched by its capacious vision.”
Hester Blum, Pennsylvania State University

“As Frederick Douglass’ experience teaches, an anthology, at its best, can be a point of entry into a world of literary expression, powerful and empowering. The Broadview Anthology of American Literature is exactly this. … What I like most about this anthology, though, is that it never forgets its most important audience: students. There is a wealth of material here that will help them imagine and reimagine what American literature could be.”
Michael C. Cohen, UCLA

The Broadview Anthology of American Literature sweeps impressively across vast early America…. The multiplicity of early American locations, languages, and genres is here on wondrous display.”
Jordan Alexander Stein, Fordham University

“I am eager to teach with this anthology! It aligns with cutting-edge research through its selections, its introductions, and explanatory notes, and the texts are supplemented with primary documents that encourage teachers and students to think critically and dynamically.”
Koritha Mitchell, The Ohio State University

The Broadview Anthology of American Literature breathes new life into the early American literature survey. Its selections present early American literature in all its rich, weird, inviting abundance. … So much thought has been put into every aspect…, from the selection of texts to their organization to their presentation on the page; it will be a gift to classrooms for years to come.”
Lara Langer Cohen, Swarthmore College

“… [M]y students LOVE The Broadview Anthology of American Literature. I am also so impressed with it—the emphasis on colonization/decolonization, the selections, the INTRODUCTIONS AND HEADNOTES!! It’s a superb anthology, and I'm looking forward to using it for many, many years. … The anthology is a triumph. It truly is.”
Rebecca Bravard, Florida Southern College

“Big and bold … an important new option for teachers and students of American literature.”
Maurice Lee, Boston University

“… Volumes A and B have wonderful choices, with the benefit of adding much more material through online links. The choices that the editors have made about popular culture and race are really welcome….”
Shirley Samuels, Cornell University

“Hemispheric, multi-generic, [and] vibrantly illustrated, … this anthology is dynamic. Its capaciousness and ample resource materials make for a text that is always … meeting its readers in new ways.”
Russ Castronovo, Tom Paine Professor of English and Dorothy Draheim Professor of American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“These two anthologies are by far the best of their kind I have seen. The range and diversity of authors, the rich historical contextualizations, the important and well-curated thematic ‘Contexts’ sections, and the careful and capacious scholarly insight that clearly animates the entire project make the volumes a superior choice for courses….”
Mark Rifkin, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

The Broadview Anthology of American Literature promises to be a dynamic addition to the genre—I’m very much looking forward to teaching from it.”
Michael Borgstrom, San Diego State University

“I find myself taken aback by, and quite thrilled with, the way The Broadview Anthology of American Literature embodies the problematic possibilities of the canon.… Let us read and re-read [it] … for all the problems and possibilities it so brilliantly offers us.”
David Kazanjian, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania

“I’m very excited to teach from this new anthology!”
Megan Walsh, St. Bonaventure University

The Broadview Anthology of American Literature is an instructor’s dream for introducing students to the diversity and complexity of American literature. … This anthology is definitely a game changer in the study of American literature. I love it!”
Venetria K. Patton, Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Professor of English and African American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“[We have] stuck for years to the same basic format [for anthologies]: tiny print, crammed pages, and a weighty tome. The new Broadview, while still weighty, does not feel crammed. It uses double columns and wide pages to make the text seem almost inviting. I might pick this text over others on that basis alone, hoping it would lessen students’ dread when they start to read. But beyond a better feel, the double column [format] also enables comparisons of related texts and side-by-side translations… A change in format may seem small, but it makes a big difference.…
Several principles of selection [have been used]…: keeping the most-taught texts, adding space for once-popular authors…, and pushing forward some writers who [the editors] believe ‘deserve to be more widely taught’ or who ‘have been unjustly neglected.’ The end result is an extraordinary display of the well-known and the little-considered. To make space for so much material, the anthology includes a large website portion, edited like the physical text. Altogether, the anthology offers a remarkable collection with good online teaching aids, stunning visuals, and a powerful emphasis on the inclusion of voices from every part of America. …
[T]he history that comes to the fore in this anthology is the history most needed now….
… [I]f I teach from this anthology, as I think I will, I will be pulling a good deal from the online selections…. I will also want to use the online material about genre and form…. I will find myself with too much to teach and not enough time or space to do it. The new Broadview manages that difficulty by having a main emphasis to guide the printed selections, while making other points of focus available online.”
Abram Van Engen, Early American Literature

“Guided by an out-standing team of General Editors, the Broadview Anthology is, one might argue, not merely another compilation of selections from American literature. Rather, it is an anthology (supplemented by online readings, audio selections, and an interactive timeline) that allows teachers to guide students into the various roles that works of literature and expressive culture have played in the process of American cultural history. Richly illustrated, with deep attention to such concerns as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation, and expertly edited and annotated, this anthology stands out above all others for its ability to make the case not only that surveys of American literature are still worth teaching but also that teaching these surveys remains essential, productive, and meaningful educational work.”
John Earnest, University of Delaware, in American Periodicals

Readings highlighted in grey are included on the anthology’s companion website.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Beginnings to 1820

  • America and American Literature, Beginnings to 1820
    • Indigenous North American Cultures and Literatures
    • Contact, and the Literatures of Contact
    • Religion in Early America
    • Slavery and America: Beginnings to 1820
    • “Begin the World Over Again”: An Age of Rebellion and Revolution
    • The Shape of a People
    • “A State of Independency”: The Republic’s First Decades
    • Revolutionary Ideas, Enlightenment Thought
    • The Environment
    • Literary Genres, Beginnings to 1820
      • Poetry, Prose Fiction, Prose Non-fiction, Drama
    • Language in America, Beginnings to 1820
  • Texts and Contexts: A Chronological Chart
  • Indigenous Oral and Visual Literatures
    • Wampanoag
      • [Moshup Story] [3 versions]
    • Mi’kmaq
      • Petroglyph of Human Figure and Sun
      • Petroglyph Tracing
      • Page of a Mi’kmaq Prayer Book
    • Mohegan
      • Painted Wood-Splint Storage Basket
    • Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
      • from [Creation Story]
      • from “The Creation”
      • Origin of Folk Stories
      • Thanksgiving Address
      • Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations
      • Wampum Belts
        • Ha:yëwënta’ (Hiawatha) Belt
        • Two Row Wampum
        • In Context: Interpreting the Two-Row Wampum
    • Ojibwe
      • from “The Birth of Nenabozho”
      • Nanabush Eats the Artichokes
      • Nanabozho
      • [Nanabush Story]
      • Ojibwe Pictographs
    • Cherokee
      • Why the Possum’s Tail Is Bare
      • Sequoyah, Cherokee Syllabary
    • Maya
      • from the Dresden Codex
      • from the Popol Vuh
    • Navajo (Diné)
      • from the Creation Story
      • Tse’ Hone / Newspaper Rock
    • Coast Salish
      • Maiden of Deception Pass
        • [Samish version in English translation; English version]
      • Tracy Powell, The Maiden of Deception Pass
      • Hul’q’umi’num House Post
      • Lummi House Post
      • Battle at Sea
      • Coyote and Rock
  • Civilizations in Contact
    • The Caribbean
      • from Christopher Columbus with Bartolomé de las Casas, Journal of the First Voyage to America
      • Christopher Columbus, Letter of Columbus to Various Persons Describing the Results of His First Voyage and Written on the Return Journey
      • from Michele de Cuneo, letter [Concerning Columbus’s Second Voyage]
      • from Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
    • Mexico
      • from Hernán Cortés, Second Letter to the Spanish Crown
      • from the anonymous manuscript of Tlatelolco
    • Florida and New Mexico
      • from Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo, La Florida
      • from Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, La Florida del Inca
      • from Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá, History of New Mexico
    • New Mexico: The Pueblo Revolt
      • Antonio de Otermín, letter on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, 8 September 1680
      • How the Spaniards Came to Shung-Opovi, How They Built a Mission, and How the Hopi Destroyed the Mission
    • Northeastern Woodlands
      • Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Accounts of the Arrival of the Whites
        • The Coming of the Whites
        • Prediction of the Arrival of the White People
        • Indian Account of the First Arrival of the Dutch at New York Island
      • from Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
      • John White, Selected Watercolors
      • Caleb Cheeshateaumauk, letter to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England, 1663
      • Mittark, Agreement of Mittark and His People Not to Sell Land to the English
      • Handsome Lake, “How the White Race Came to America and Why the Gai´wiio‘ Became a Necessity”
      • In Context: The Myth of Thanksgiving
        • from Edward Winslow, “A Letter Sent from New England to a Friend in These Parts,” Mourt’s Relation
        • from William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation
        • Abraham Lincoln, A Proclamation, 3 October 1863
    • New France
      • from Samuel de Champlain, Voyages of Samuel Champlain
      • from Relation of the Discoveries and Voyages of Cavalier de La Salle from 1679 to 1681
      • from Chrestien LeClercq, New Relation of Gaspesia, with the Customs and Religion of the Gaspesian Indians
    • California
      • from Antonio de la Ascención, A Brief Report of the Discovery in the South Sea
      • from Pablo Tac, “Conversion of the San Luiseños of Alta California”
      • from Lorenzo Asisara with Thomas Savage, [Account of Mission Life]
  • Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
    • from The Relación of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
      • Chapter 4: How We Entered Inland
      • from Chapter 5: How the Governor Left the Ships
      • from Chapter 14: How Four Christians Departed
      • Chapter 15: Of What Happened to Us in the Villa of Malhado
    • from The Relación of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca [Chapters 17, 21, 22, 26, 27, 33, 34, 36]
  • John Smith
    • from The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles
      • from The Third Book
        • from Chapter 1
        • from Chapter 2: What Happened Till the First Supply
        • from Chapter 8: Captain Smith’s Journey to Pamunkey
      • from The Fourth Book
      • from The Sixth Book [from A Description of New England]
    • In Context: Alternative Accounts of Wahunsonacock and Pocahontas
  • William Bradford
    • from Of Plymouth Plantation
      • from The First Book
        • from Chapter 1: [The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England]
        • from Chapter 4: Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal
        • Chapter 9: Of Their Voyage, and How They Passed the Sea; and of Their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod
        • from Chapter 10: Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation; and What Befell Them Thereabout
      • from The Second Book
        • from Chapter 11: The Remainder of Anno 1620 [The Mayflower Compact] [The Starving Time] [Indian Relations]
        • from Chapter 12: Anno Domini 1621 [Mayflower Departs and Corn Planted] [Indian Diplomacy] [First Thanksgiving]
        • from Chapter 14: Anno Domini 1623 [End of the “Common Course and Condition”]
        • from Chapter 28: Anno Domini 1637 [The Pequot War]
        • from Chapter 32: Anno Domini 1642 [Wickedness Breaks Forth]
    • from Of Plymouth Plantation [from Chapters 1, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, and 35]
    • In Context: Mapping Colonial Conflict
      • John Underhill, “The Figure of the Indians’ Fort or Palizado in New England and the Manner of Destroying It by Captain Underhill and Captain Mason,” News from America
      • John Tinker, Uncas, Wesawegun, Cassacinamon, Harry Wright, and Ninigret, “Plan of the Pequot Country and Testimony of Uncas, Cassacinamon, and Wesawegun”
      • William Hubbard, A Map of New-England
  • Thomas Morton
    • from The New English Canaan
  • John Winthrop
    • A Model of Christian Charity
  • Anne Hutchinson
    • The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newtown
    • In Context: John Winthrop’s Record of Anne Hutchinson’s Testimony
  • Roger Williams
    • from A Key into the Language of America
      • from Chapter 1: Of Salutation
      • from Chapter 21: Of Religion, the Soul, Etc.
      • from Chapter 29: Of Their War, Etc.
  • Anne Bradstreet
    • Prologue
    • An Elegy upon That Honourable and Renowned Knight, Sir Philip Sidney
    • In Honour of That High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth of Most Happy Memory
    • To the Memory of My Dear and Ever Honored Father Thomas Dudley Esq.
    • Contemplations
    • The Flesh and the Spirit
    • The Author to Her Book
    • Before the Birth of One of Her Children
    • To My Dear and Loving Husband
    • A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment
    • Another [Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment I]
    • Another [Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment II]
    • To Her Father with Some Verses
    • In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659
    • In Memory of My Dear Grand-Child Elizabeth Bradstreet
    • In Memory of My Dear Grand-Child Anne Bradstreet
    • On My Dear Grand-Child Simon Bradstreet
    • For Deliverance from a Fever
    • Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666
    • As Weary Pilgrim
    • To My Dear Children
    • from Meditations Divine and Moral
  • Michael Wigglesworth
    • from The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth
    • from The Day of Doom Or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment
  • Mary Rowlandson
    • The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
    • In Context: Editions of Rowlandson’s Narrative
    • In Context: Picturing Mary Rowlandson
    • In Context: Indigenous Experiences of Metacom’s War
      • from John Easton, letter to Josiah Winslow, 26 May 1675
      • James Quannapaquait with unnamed magistrates, The Examination and Relation of James Quannapaquait, alias James Rumny-Marsh
      • Massachusetts Council, order regarding Indigenous allies
      • Numphow and John Line, letter to Thomas Henchman, November 1675
      • James Printer
        • from Daniel Gookin, An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England in the Years 1675, 1676, 1677
        • attributed to James Printer, note tacked to a tree, c. 1676
      • from Andrew Pittimee, Quanahpohkit, John Mague, and James Speen, petition to the Governor and Council of the Massachusetts Colony, June 1676
      • William Ahaton, petition to the Governor and Council of the Massachusetts Colony, July 1676
      • from William Wannukhow, Joseph Wannukhow, and John Appamatahqeen, petition to the Boston Court of Assistants, 5 September 1676
  • Edward Taylor
    • [Acrostic Love Poem to Elizabeth Fitch]
    • from God’s Determinations Touching His Elect
    • from Preparatory Meditations before My Approach to the Lord’s Supper
    • Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
    • Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold
    • Huswifery
    • Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
    • The Ebb and Flow
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
    • 82: [Divina Lysi mía] / [My divine Lysis]
    • 92: [Silly, you men]
    • 92: [Hombres necios] / [Silly, you men]
    • 165: [Detente, Sombra de mi bien Esquivo] / [Semblance of my elusive love, hold still—]
    • In Context: The Frontispieces to Sor Juana’s Published Works
    • from the Reply to Sor Philothea
    • In Context: Sor Philothea’s Letter to Sor Juana
  • Cotton Mather
    • from The Wonders of the Invisible World
      • from Enchantments Encountered
      • from The Trial of Martha Carrier
    • In Context: The Salem Witch Trials
  • Canassatego
    • from Speech at Lancaster, 26 June 1744
    • from Speech at Lancaster, 4 July 1744
    • In Context: Indigenous–Settler Negotiations in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
      • from George Washington, The Journal of Major George Washington
  • Jonathan Edwards
    • Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
    • In Context: The Preaching of Jonathan Edwards
  • Elizabeth Ashbridge
    • Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge
    • In Context: Quaker Conversion Narratives
  • Contexts: Immigration and Indentured Servitude
    • advertisement, The Pennsylvania Gazette
    • advertisement, The Pennsylvania Gazette
    • notice, New York Independent Journal
    • Elizabeth Sprigs, letter to John Sprigs, 22 September 1756
    • from Thomas Lloyd, letter to Edmond Hector, 10 October 1756
    • from Gottlieb Mittelberger, Gottlieb Mittelberger’s Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750 and Return to Germany in the Year 1754
  • Lucy Terry
    • Bars Fight
    • In Context: Josiah Holland’s Account of the Bars Fight
  • Sagoyewatha
    • [Reply to the Missionary Jacob Cram]
    • [Reply to President Washington, 31 March 1792]
  • Benjamin Franklin
    • from The New-England Courant [The “Silence Dogood” Papers]
    • The Speech of Miss Polly Baker
    • The Way to Wealth: Preface to Poor Richard Improved
    • Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One
    • Drinking Song
    • Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America
    • On the Slave Trade
    • from The Autobiography
      • Part 1
      • Part 2
    • The Autobiography [full text]
    • The Autobiography [modernized text]
    • In Context: Portraits of Benjamin Franklin
    • In Context: Correspondence between William Franklin and Benjamin Franklin
    • In Context: Franklin’s Cultural and Literary Influences
    • In Context: France Mourns Benjamin Franklin
  • Samson Occom
    • [Autobiographical Narrative]
    • from A Sermon, Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian
    • The Sufferings of Christ
    • Elm Bark Box
  • Sarah Kemble Knight
    • The Journal of Madam Knight
    • In Context: Boston and New York in the Early Eighteenth Century
  • J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
    • from Letters from an American Farmer
      • from Letter 3: What Is an American?
      • from Letter 9: Description of Charles-Town
    • from Letters from an American Farmer [Letters 2 and 4]
    • In Context: Nantucket and Charles-Town
    • In Context: Reactions to Letters from an American Farmer
    • In Context: Rationalizing Colonialism: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Washington
  • John Adams and Abigail Adams
    • Selected correspondence, 1774–76
  • Thomas Paine
    • from Common Sense
      • Introduction
      • from Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution
      • from Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession
      • Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
    • In Context: A Response to Common Sense
      • from Charles Inglis, The Deceiver Unmasked
    • from The American Crisis
  • Thomas Jefferson
    • from The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
      • A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America
    • In Context: British and American Reactions to the Declaration of Independence
    • from Notes on the State of Virginia
      • from Query 14: The Administration of Justice and Description of the Laws?
    • from Notes on the State of Virginia [from Queries 6, 11, 14, and 18]
    • In Context: Responses to Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia
  • The Federalist
    • from The Federalist
      • No. 1 [Alexander Hamilton]
      • No. 10 [James Madison]
    • from The Federalist [Nos. 6, 9, and 51]
  • Venture Smith
    • A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa
  • Contexts: Slavery and Resistance
    • from King Alfonso I (Nzinga Mbemba) of Kongo, letter to King João III of Portugal, 18 October 1526
    • from Bartolomé de las Casas, History of the Indies
    • from Bernardino de Manzanedo, dispatch to King Charles I of Spain
    • from John Rolfe, letter to Sir Edwin Sandys, January 1620
    • from Edward Waterhouse, “A Declaration of the State of the Colony and Affairs in Virginia”
    • John Saffin, “The Negroes Character”
    • anonymous, letter to the South Carolina Gazette, 14 October 1732
    • from John Woolman, Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes
    • from James Grainger, The Sugar-Cane
    • Belinda Sutton, “The Petition of Belinda, an African”
    • from “Old Elizabeth,” Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Coloured Woman
    • from Jupiter Hammon, An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York
    • Benjamin Banneker, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 19 August 1791
    • from Peter Williams Jr., “An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade,” 1 January 1808
    • from Boyrereau Brinch, The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-named Jeffrey Brace
  • Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa
    • from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
      • from Chapter 1
      • Chapter 2
      • from Chapter 3
      • from Chapter 4
      • from Chapter 5
      • from Chapter 6
      • from Chapter 7
      • from Chapter 8
      • from Chapter 9
    • from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano [from Chapters 1 (full text), 2 (full text), 3 (expanded selections), 4, 5 (full text), 6, 7 (full text), 8, 9 (expanded selections), 10, 11, 12]
    • In Context: Equiano’s Narrative as a Philadelphia Abolitionist Pamphlet
    • In Context: Reactions to Olaudah Equiano’s Work
    • [Note to Instructors: The Interesting Narrative is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume.]
  • Absalom Jones
    • The Petition of the People of Colour
    • from A Thanksgiving Sermon
  • Richard Allen and Absalom Jones
    • from A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia
  • Richard Allen
    • from “Confession of John Joyce, Alias Davis, Who Was Executed on Monday, the 14th of March, 1808”
  • Herman Mann and Deborah Sampson
    • from The Female Review
    • In Context: Picturing Deborah Sampson
  • Contexts: Rebellions and Revolutions
    • “Pontiac’s War”
      • from anonymous [believed to be Robert Navarre], Journal of the Pontiac Conspiracy
      • from George III, The Royal Proclamation of 1763
    • The Revolutionary War
      • from George III, Speech to Parliament, 30 November 1774
      • from Response of the House of Commons, 8 December 1774
      • from William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry
      • Benjamin Franklin
        • “What Would Satisfy the Americans?”
        • “Join, or Die”
      • Poems and Songs
        • anonymous (“A Son of Liberty”), “A New Song, Addressed to the Sons of Liberty, on the Continent of America; Particularly to the Illustrious, Glorious and Never to Be Forgotten Ninety-two of Boston”
        • anonymous (“A Young Woman of Virginia”), “Virginia Banishing Tea”
        • from Lemuel Haynes, “The Battle of Lexington”
        • Ruth Bryant, “The American Maid’s Choice”
        • Hannah Griffitts, “Upon Reading a Book Entitled Common Sense
        • Joseph Stansbury
          • “Verses to the Tories”
          • “The United States”
        • Francis Hopkinson, “A Camp Ballad”
        • Jonathan Odell, “The Old Year and the New: A Prophecy”
        • Margaretta Faugères, “A Salute to the Fourteenth Anniversary of American Independence”
      • from Dunmore’s Proclamation, 1775
      • from Edward Rutledge, letter to Ralph Izard, 8 December 1775
      • Declaration by the Representatives of the People of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, Assembled in General Convention, 14 December 1775
      • from Reverend John Lindsay, letter to Dr. William Robertson, 6 August 1776
      • from Mercy Otis Warren, History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
    • The French Revolution, and the Revolutionary Call for Women’s Rights
      • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
      • from Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
      • from Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman
      • “The Rights of Woman” in America
        • from Annis Boudinot Stockton, letter to her daughter [Julia Stockton Rush], 22 March 1793
        • from anonymous (“A Lady”), The Philadelphia Minerva
    • The Haitian Revolution
      • Toussaint Louverture, Proclamation, 29 August 1793
      • Thomas Jefferson on the Haitian Revolution, Selected letters
      • The Haitian Revolution in American Newspapers
      • from Abraham Bishop, “The Rights of Black Men”
      • from Jean-Jacques Dessalines, “Liberty or Death. Proclamation. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Governor General, to the People of Hayti”
      • from Lenora Sansay, Secret History, Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo
      • from William Wells Brown, St. Domingo: Its Revolutions and Its Patriots
      • from Baron de Vastey, The Colonial System Unveiled
    • Gabriel’s Rebellion and Other Rebellions by Enslaved Americans
      • Newspaper Reports
      • from Robert Sutcliff, Travels in Some Parts of North America in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806
    • [Note to Instructors: Secret History is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume.]
  • Judith Sargent Murray
    • On the Equality of the Sexes
    • from “The Gleaner Contemplates the Future Prospects of Women in This ‘Enlightened Age’”
  • Briton Hammon
    • A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man
  • Philip Freneau
    • The Hurricane
    • The Wild Honey Suckle
    • The Indian Burying Ground
    • On Mr. Paine’s Rights of Man
    • To Sir Toby
    • In Context: Slavery in the Caribbean
    • On the Religion of Nature
  • Phillis Wheatley
    • To Maecenas
    • To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
    • To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty
    • On Being Brought from Africa to America
    • On Imagination
    • To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth
    • To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
    • A Farewell to America. To Mrs. S.W.
    • To His Excellency General Washington
    • On the Death of General Wooster
    • On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield
    • Selected Letters
    • In Context: Preface to Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
    • In Context: Reactions to Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
    • On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age
    • On the Death of a Young Gentleman
    • An Hymn to the Morning
    • On Recollection
  • Lemuel Haynes
    • from Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-Keeping
  • Royall Tyler
    • The Contrast, A Comedy; In Five Acts
    • from The Algerine Captive
  • Susanna Haswell Rowson
    • Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom
    • from Charlotte Temple
  • Hannah Webster Foster
    • The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton
  • Popular Literature and Print Culture in Early America: A Visual Sampler
  • Popular Literature and Print Culture in Early America
    • Bay Psalm Book
      • from the Preface
      • Psalm 23 [King James Version, Bay Psalm Book version]
    • Samuel Sewall, [“Verses upon a New Century”]
    • Henry Timberlake, “A Translation of the War-Song” [of the Cherokee]
    • from Benjamin Harris, The New England Primer
    • from Benjamin Franklin, The Printer to the Reader
    • anonymous (“A Lady”), “Woman’s Hard Fate”
    • anonymous, New England Bravery
    • Samuel Davies, from “The Duty of Christians to Propagate Their Religion Among Heathens, Earnestly Recommended to the Masters of Negro Slaves in Virginia”
    • Samuel Davies, from “The Rule of Equity”
    • Mary Nelson, “Forty Shillings Reward”
    • In Context: Forty Shillings Reward
    • Mercy Otis Warren, “A Thought on the Inestimable Blessing of Reason”
    • Mercy Otis Warren, “On a Survey of the Heavens”
    • from James Revel, “The Poor, Unhappy, Transported Felon”
    • from William Bartram, Travels
    • from Philip Freneau, “The Country Printer”
    • from George Washington, Farewell Address
    • anonymous, “Every Man His Own Politician”
    • from The Philadelphia Repository and Weekly Register
      • L’Embonpoint
      • The Mother
    • from anonymous (“Volina”), “You Say We’re Fond of Fops—Why Not?”
    • Samuel Woodworth, “The Patriotic Diggers”
    • William Ellery Channing, sermons
      • from “The Moral Argument against Calvinism”
      • from “A Discourse on Some of the Distinguishing Opinions of Unitarians” [“The Baltimore Sermon”]
  • Charles Brockden Brown
    • from An Address to the Government of the United States on the Cession of Louisiana to the French
    • Somnambulism: A Fragment
    • [Note to Instructors: Ormond and Edgar Huntly are among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume.]
  • Mary Jemison / Dehgewanus
    • from A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
    • In Context: Illustrating Jemison’s Narrative
  • Tecumseh
    • Speech to William Henry Harrison
    • Speech to the Osages
  • Washington Irving
    • The Wife
    • Rip Van Winkle
    • In Context: Images of Rip Van Winkle
    • In Context: A German Source for “Rip Van Winkle”
    • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

1820 to Reconstruction

  • America and American Literature, 1820 to Reconstruction
    • Changing Views of American Literature
    • Race, Slavery, and America, 1820–1860
    • Expansion, Expulsion, and “Manifest Destiny”
    • Native American Writing—and Writing about Native Americans
    • Women’s Rights and Women’s Roles
    • Marriage and Sexuality
    • Nature and the Environment
    • Money and Machines, Capital and Labor
    • Individualism and Self-Reliance
    • Religion and Culture, 1820 to Reconstruction
    • The Civil War and Its Literature
    • Reconstruction and the Literature of Reconstruction
    • Language in America, 1820 to Reconstruction
    • Literary Genres, 1820 to Reconstruction
      • Poetry, Prose Fiction, Prose Non-fiction, Drama
  • Texts and Contexts: A Chronological Chart
  • William Apess
    • from A Son of the Forest
    • An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man
    • In Context: The Mashpee Struggle for Land Rights and Self Determination
    • from Eulogy on King Philip
  • Catharine Maria Sedgwick
    • from Hope Leslie
    • Cacoethes Scribendi
    • Berkeley Jail
    • from “Slavery in New England”
  • James Fenimore Cooper
    • from The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757
      • from Volume 2
      • from Chapter 12
      • from Chapter 15
    • from The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757 [from Preface; from Volume 1, Chapter 3; and from Volume 2, Chapters 12, 15, and 16]
    • In Context: Thomas Cole and The Last of the Mohicans
    • In Context: The Illustrated Editions of The Last of the Mohicans
    • In Context: Introduction to the 1831 London Edition
    • [Note to Instructors: The Last of the Mohicans is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume.]
  • Lydia Huntley Sigourney
    • Death of an Infant
    • Indian Names
    • Slavery
    • To a Shred of Linen
  • William Cullen Bryant
    • Thanatopsis
    • To a Waterfowl
    • To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe
  • Nature and the Environment: A Visual Sampler
    • John James Audubon, Bird Paintings
    • The Hudson River School
    • Plains Ledger Art
  • Contexts: Nature and the Environment
    • Nature and the Environment: Changing Views
      • from William Cullen Bryant, “Forest Hymn”
      • John James Audubon, Bird Paintings
      • from Charles Lane, “The Consociate Family Life”
      • from Susan Fenimore Cooper, Rural Hours
    • The Hudson River School
    • Transportation and the Environment
      • The Erie Canal
        • from “The Canal Policy of the State of New York: Report,” The Buffalo Commercial
      • The Transcontinental Railroad
        • from “Pacific Railroad Completed,” The National Republican
      • The Mississippi River
    • Urban and Industrial Environments
      • from Matthew Hale Smith, Sunshine and Shadow in New York
    • Slavery, Plantation Agriculture, and the Environment
      • from Charles Ball, Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, A Black Man
      • from T.B. Thorpe, “Cotton and Its Cultivation,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
      • from Frederick Law Olmsted, The Cotton Kingdom
    • The West
      • from Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast
      • from Frederick Law Olmsted, “The Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove”
      • People of Yosemite: The Photographic Record
      • from John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
    • Indigenous Perspectives
      • from Chief Seattle, Speech, 1854
      • “Chief Seattle,” Speech, 1974
      • Plains Ledger Art
        • Black Hawk, Images from the Black Hawk Ledger
  • George Moses Horton
    • The Lover’s Farewell
    • On Liberty and Slavery
    • The Slave’s Complaint
    • On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet’s Freedom
    • Lines to My ——
    • The Fearful Traveller in the Haunted Castle
    • Imploring to Be Resigned at Death
    • Division of an Estate
    • For the Fair Miss M.M. McLean, An Acrostic
    • George Moses Horton, Myself
    • The Southern Refugee
    • The Obstructions of Genius
    • Death of an Old Carriage Horse
    • Like Brothers We Meet
    • Weep
    • Lincoln Is Dead
    • from “Life of George M. Horton, the Colored Bard of North Carolina”
  • John Brown
    • from John Brown’s Provisional Constitution
    • In Context: “John Brown Song”
    • John Brown’s Last Speech
  • Jane Johnston Schoolcraft / Bamewawagezhikaquay
    • To the Pine Tree / Translation
    • By an Ojibwa Female Pen
    • To My Ever Beloved and Lamented Son William Henry
    • Mishösha, or the Magician and His Daughters: A Chippewa Tale or Legend
    • On Leaving My Children John and Jane at School
      • Free Translation
  • José María Heredia
    • Niagara
    • The 1832 Version of “Niágara”: Spanish Text and English Translation
    • from “To Washington”
  • Vicente Pérez Rosales
    • from Diary of Travels in California
    • from Travels in California: Memories of 1848, 1849, 1850
    • In Context: The California Gold Rush
  • Lydia Maria Child
    • from An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
    • The Quadroons
    • from Letters from New-York
      • Letter 34: Woman’s Rights
    • from Letters from New-York [Letters 20 (Birds) and 36 (The Indians)]
  • Contexts: Expansion, Native American Expulsion, and “Manifest Destiny”
    • “Destruction of the Chehaw Village”
    • Catharine Brown (Kä tý), letter to Loring S. Williams and Matilda Loomis Williams, 5 July 1819
    • Cherokee Women’s Petitions (1817,1818,1831)
    • from William Cullen Bryant, New York Evening Post Editorials
    • Andrew Jackson, message to Congress on Indian Removal
    • Lydia Sigourney, “The Cherokee Mother”
    • from Alexis de Tocqueville, description of the Choctaw Expulsion
    • John Ross, letter to the Senate and House of Representatives, 28 September 1836
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Martin Van Buren, 23 April 1838
    • from Eliza Whitmire, interview
    • Freeman Owle, “The Trail of Tears”
    • from Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Diary
    • R.M. Potter, “Hymn of the Alamo”
    • from Daniel S. Dickinson, “Speech upon the Joint Resolution Providing for the Annexation of Texas,” 22 February 1845
    • from John O’Sullivan, “The Great Nation of Futurity”
    • from John O’Sullivan or Jane Cazneau, “Annexation,” The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
    • from Catherine Sager Pringle, Across the Plains in 1844
    • In Context: The Whitman Murders
    • from Charles Goodyear, Speech in Congress, 16 January 1846
    • from Walt Whitman, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
      • editorials
      • “Shall We Fight It Out?”
      • from “Our Territory on the Pacific”
    • Rosalía Vallejo, “Narrative of Mrs. Rosalía Leese”
    • Thomas D’Arcy McGee, “The Army of the West”
    • from J.M. Whitfield in reply to F. Douglass [Letter on Emigration], 25 September 1853
    • anonymous, “Filibustering Ethics”
    • Francisco P. Ramírez, editorial from El Clamor Público, 24 July 1855
    • from John Rollin Ridge, “Poem (Delivered at Commencement of Oakland College, California, June 6th 1861)”
    • from Henry David Thoreau, “Walking”
  • Sarah Moore Grimké
    • from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes
      • Letter 8: On the Condition of Women in the United States
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • from Nature
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1: Nature
    • Nature [full text]
    • In Context: Illustrations of Emerson’s Nature
    • Original Hymn [Concord Hymn]
    • The American Scholar
    • An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, 15 July 1838
    • Each in All
    • The Snow-Storm
    • Self-Reliance
    • Compensation
    • Circles
    • from “The Poet”
    • The Poet [full text]
    • Experience
    • Brahma
    • In Context: Emerson and the Lyceum Movement
  • Mà-ka-tai-me-she-kià-kiàk / Black Hawk
    • from Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk
    • Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk [full text]
  • Elias Boudinot / Gallegina
    • An Address to the Whites
    • To the Public
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • My Kinsman, Major Molineux
    • Young Goodman Brown
    • The Minister’s Black Veil
    • Endicott and the Red Cross
    • The Birthmark
    • Rappaccini’s Daughter
    • from The House of the Seven Gables, A Romance [Preface]
    • [Note to Instructors: The Scarlet Letter is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume.]
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    • A Psalm of Life
    • The Village Blacksmith
    • Excelsior
    • The Wreck of the Hesperus
    • from Poems on Slavery
      • The Slave’s Dream
      • The Slave Singing at Midnight
      • The Quadroon Girl
    • from “The Building of the Ship”
    • The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
    • from The Song of Hiawatha
      • Introduction
      • The Peace Pipe
      • Hiawatha’s Fasting
      • Picture-Writing
      • from “The White-Man’s Foot”
      • Hiawatha’s Departure
    • In Context: The Reception of The Song of Hiawatha
    • The Ropewalk
    • Snow-Flakes
    • In the Churchyard at Cambridge
    • Paul Revere’s Ride
    • In Context: Paul Revere’s Ride
    • The Children’s Hour
    • Divina Comedia
    • Aftermath
    • The Cross of Snow
    • Milton
    • The Old Bridge at Florence / Il Ponte Vecchio di Firenze
    • Nature
    • My Cathedral
    • In Context: Images of Longfellow
  • Abraham Lincoln
    • from Speech delivered at the Republican State Convention in Springfield, Illinois [“A House Divided”]
    • from Cooper Union Address
    • In Context: Reactions in the New York Press to Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address
    • First Inaugural Address
    • Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg
    • Second Inaugural Address
  • John Greenleaf Whittier
    • The Hunters of Men
    • The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother to Her Daughters, Sold into Southern Bondage
    • Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll
  • Edgar Allan Poe
    • Sonnet—To Science
    • The Valley of Unrest
    • Ligeia
    • The Fall of the House of Usher
    • The Man of the Crowd
    • The Murders in the Rue Morgue
    • The Pit and the Pendulum
    • The Tell-Tale Heart
    • The Black Cat
    • The Purloined Letter
    • The Raven
    • In Context: “The Raven” in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
    • The Imp of the Perverse
    • from “The Philosophy of Composition”
    • The Cask of Amontillado
    • Hop-Frog
    • Annabel Lee
  • Nineteenth-Century Oratory
    • Petalesharo or Sharitarish, “Speech of ‘The Pawnee Chief’”
    • Maria W. Stewart, “Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall”
    • from Michael Walsh, “An Abridgment of the Speech at the Great County Meeting in Tammany Hall”
    • from Henry Highland Garnet, “Address to the Slaves of the United States of America”
    • from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Address on Woman’s Rights”
    • Bayley Wyat, “Speech by a Virginia Freedman”
    • from Frederick Douglass, “The Composite Nation”
    • from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Speech at the National Woman’s Suffrage Convention
    • Red Cloud, Speeches
  • Margaret Fuller
    • from “The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men. Woman versus Women”
    • “The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men. Woman versus Women” [full text]
  • David Walker
    • from Walker’s Appeal, in Four Articles
      • Appeal, etc.
      • Article 1. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery
      • from Article 4. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Colonizing Plan
    • Walker’s Appeal, in Four Articles [full text]
  • Contexts: Slavery and Abolition
    • Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwurm, “To Our Patrons,” Freedom’s Journal
    • from Zephaniah Kingsley, A Treatise on the Patriarchal, or Cooperative System of Society
      • Preface
      • from “A Treatise on the Patriarchal Slave System”
    • from John P. Kennedy, Swallow Barn
    • from Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimké Weld, and Sarah Grimké, American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
    • Runaway Advertisements
    • Stephen C. Foster, “Old Uncle Ned”
    • anonymous, “Escape from Slavery of Henry Box Brown”
    • from the Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
    • Annie Parker, “Story Telling”
    • from William Goodell, The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice
    • from Bethany Veney, The Narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman
      • Chapter 4
      • Chapter 5
    • from Caroline Lee Hentz, The Planter’s Northern Bride [from Preface]
    • from “Arrest of Fugitive Slaves,” Cincinnati Gazette
    • from The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
      • William Johnson
      • Harriet Tubman
      • John W. Lindsey
      • from William Grose
      • Mrs. Christopher Hamilton
      • Benjamin Miller
      • Mary Younger
      • from William A. Hall
      • Ben Blackburn
      • Lydia Adams
      • David Grier
    • from Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey Through Texas
    • from Roger Taney, the Dred Scott Decision
    • from Frederick Douglass, The Dred Scott Decision
    • from Austin Reed, The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict
    • from Mary Chesnut, Diary, 18 March 1861
    • from Abraham Lincoln, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 22 September 1862
    • from Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation, 1 January 1863
    • Jourdon Anderson, “Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master”
    • from William Marvin, Speech to the Freedmen of Marianna, 17 September 1865
    • from Mississippi Black Code
    • Advertisements Taken Out by Formerly Enslaved People Seeking Family Members
    • The 1866 Memphis Massacre
    • from Robert B. Elliott, Speech to the House of Representatives, 6 January 1874
    • from Frederick Douglass, “Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, Delivered at the Unveiling of the Freedmen’s Monument,” 14 April 1876
    • In Context: The Emancipation Memorial (“Freedmen’s Monument”)
  • William Lloyd Garrison
    • To the Public
    • Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society
    • In Context: The Boston Anti-Abolitionist Riot of 1835: “Downfal of Abolition”
  • Sojourner Truth
    • from The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave
    • Speech at the Akron, Ohio Women’s Rights Convention, 1851
    • In Context: Sojourner Truth’s cartes de visite
    • In Context: Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl”
  • African American Oral Literature
    • [We Raise de Wheat]
    • Poor Rosy, Poor Gal
    • Roll, Jordan, Roll
    • Michael Row the Boat Ashore
    • O’er the Crossing
    • Run, N—, Run!
    • Charleston Gals
    • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
    • Fisk University Jubilee Singers, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
    • Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
    • Many Thousand Gone
    • Steal Away
    • Dinwiddie Colored Quartet, “Steal Away”
    • Slave Marriage Ceremony Supplement
    • Pick a Bale of Cotton
    • Mose “Clear Rock” Platt, “Pick a Bale o’ Cotton”
    • De Rabbit, de Wolf an’ de Tar Baby
    • Why Brer Possum Has No Hair on His Tail
    • [Big Sixteen]
    • All God’s Chillen Had Wings
  • James Monroe Whitfield
    • America
    • Yes! Strike Again That Sounding String
    • The North Star
    • Stanzas for the First of August
  • Martin R. Delany
    • from Blake; or, the Huts of America
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
    • from Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly
      • Chapter 1: In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
      • Chapter 5: Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
      • Chapter 7: The Mother’s Struggle
    • from Uncle Tom’s Cabin [Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 20, 26, 40, 41, 45]
    • In Context: Visualizing Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the Nineteenth Century
    • In Context: Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass Debate Harriet Beecher Stowe
    • [Note to Instructors: Uncle Tom’s Cabin is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume.]
  • Fanny Fern
    • Hints to Young Wives
    • A Practical Bluestocking
    • Soliloquy of a Housemaid
    • Male Criticism on Ladies’ Books
    • A Law More Nice than Just
    • Independence
    • In Context: Contemporary Reviews of Fanny Fern’s Work
  • Harriet Jacobs
    • from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
      • Preface by the Author
      • Introduction by the Editor
      • Chapter 1: Childhood
      • Chapter 2: The New Master and Mistress
      • Chapter 5: The Trials of Girlhood
      • Chapter 6: The Jealous Mistress
      • Chapter 7: The Lover
      • Chapter 8: What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North
      • Chapter 10: A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life
      • Chapter 12: Fear of Insurrection
      • Chapter 14: Another Link to Life
      • Chapter 15: Continued Persecutions
      • Chapter 17: The Flight
      • Chapter 21: The Loophole of Retreat
      • Chapter 29: Preparations for Escape
      • Chapter 39: The Confession
      • Chapter 40: The Fugitive Slave Law
      • Chapter 41: Free at Last
    • In Context: Fugitive Slave Advertisement for Harriet Jacobs
    • In Context: The “Peculiar Circumstances” of Slavery
  • William Wells Brown
    • from Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States
    • In Context: Advertisement for a Lecture by William Wells Brown
    • [Note to Instructors: Clotel is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume.]
  • Henry David Thoreau
    • Resistance to Civil Government
    • In Context: The Civil Disobedience of Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane
    • from Walden; or, Life in the Woods
      • from Chapter 1: Economy
      • Chapter 2: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
      • from Chapter 5: Solitude
      • Chapter 17: Spring
      • Chapter 18: Conclusion
    • Walden; or, Life in the Woods [full text]
    • In Context: The Photographs of Herbert Wendell Gleason
    • from “A Plea for Captain John Brown”
  • Frederick Douglass
    • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself
    • In Context: Responses to Frederick Douglass’s Narrative
      • Margaret Fuller, Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, from The New York Tribune
      • A.C.C. Thompson, “To the Public. Falsehood Refuted,” The Liberator
      • Frederick Douglass, “Reply to Mr. A.C.C. Thompson,” The Liberator
    • from “To My Old Master”
    • What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
    • The Heroic Slave
    • In Context: Photographs of Frederick Douglass
    • from My Bondage and My Freedom
    • from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
  • E.D.E.N. Southworth
    • from The Hidden Hand
  • Contexts: The Civil War and Its Literature
    • from South Carolina Secession Convention, “Declaration”
    • from George Templeton Strong, Diary
    • from Alexander Stephens, The “Cornerstone” Speech, 21 March 1861
    • from Mary Chesnut, Diary
    • from anonymous, “Let My People Go: A Song of the ‘Contrabands’”
    • Julia Ward Howe, “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
    • Frederick Douglass, “Men of Color, to Arms!”
    • George Henry Boker, “The Black Regiment”
    • Caroline A. Ball, “The Jacket of Gray”
    • Emily Dickinson, “When I was small, a Woman died”
    • from Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches
    • from Mattie Jackson and L.S. Thompson, The Story of Mattie J. Jackson
    • from Mary A. Livermore, My Story of the War: A Woman’s Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience
    • anonymous, “By the Hush, Me Boys”
    • Lindley Miller and Men of the 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment (African Descent), “Song of the First of Arkansas”
    • Abraham Lincoln, Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland, 18 April 1864
    • anonymous, “The Voices of the Guns”
    • Sarah E. Shuften, “Ethiopia’s Dead”
    • Henry Timrod, “Ode”
    • Sarah Piatt, Poems
      • Hearing the Battle—July 21, 1861
      • Army of Occupation
      • The Old Slave-Music
  • Walt Whitman
    • from 1855 Leaves of Grass [Preface]
    • from 1855 Leaves of Grass [Song of Myself]
    • In Context: 1855 Leaves of Grass [Song of Myself]
    • from 1881 Leaves of Grass
      • from Inscriptions
        • One’s Self I Sing
      • from Children of Adam
        • I Sing the Body Electric
      • from Calamus
      • Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
      • Song of the Redwood-Tree
      • from Sea-Drift
        • Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
      • from By the Roadside
        • When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
      • from Drum-Taps
        • Beat! Beat! Drums!
        • Cavalry Crossing a Ford
        • Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
        • The Wound-Dresser
      • from Memories of President Lincoln
        • When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
        • O Captain! My Captain!
    • In Context: Nineteenth-Century Reviews of Leaves of Grass
    • In Context: The Design of Leaves of Grass, 1855–60
    • Live Oak, with Moss
  • Herman Melville
    • Hawthorne and His Mosses, By a Virginian Spending July in Vermont
    • from Moby-Dick, or The Whale
      • Chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale
    • from Moby-Dick [Chapters 1, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32, 36, 38, 41, 42, 48, 49, 64, 68, 87, 89, 93, 94, 95, 99, 102, 128, 132, 135, and Epilogue]
    • In Context: Nineteenth-Century Images of Whales and Whaling
    • In Context: The Story of the Essex
    • In Context: Selection of Melville’s Letters to Hawthorne
    • Bartleby, the Scrivener
    • In Context: The Book of Job
    • Benito Cereno
    • from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
      • The Portent
      • A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight
    • from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War [additional selections]
    • [Note to Instructors: Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume.]
  • Popular Literature and Print Culture, 1820–Reconstruction: A Visual Sampler
    • anonymous, Davy Crockett Tales
    • Popular Novels in Print Culture
  • Popular Literature and Print Culture, 1820–Reconstruction
    • John Howard Payne, “Home, Sweet Home!”
    • In Context: The Reception of “Home, Sweet Home!”
    • The Haitian Revolution in Literature
      • anonymous (“S”), “Theresa, A Haytien Tale”
      • from John Greenleaf Whittier, “Toussaint L’Ouverture”
      • from Ignace Nau, “Dessalines”
    • anonymous (“Yankee”), “A Song Written for the Fourth of July 1828, Addressed to the Working Classes”
    • anonymous, “‘Up East’ Versus ‘Down East’”
    • anonymous, “The Mill Has Shut Down”
    • Factory Girls, the Lowell Mills, and the Lowell Offering
      • anonymous, “The Lowell Factory Girl”
      • from the Lowell Offering
      • In Context: Factory Girls
    • Sarah Mapps Douglass, “The Stranger in America”
    • anonymous, “Know Ye Not That Ye Are Men?”
    • Blackface, Minstrelsy, and “Jim Crow”
      • Thomas D. Rice, “The Original Jim Crow”
      • “Jim Crack Corn, or the Blue Tail Fly”
      • from William Leman Rede (written for Thomas D. Rice), Flight to America
      • In Context: The Reception of Flight to America
      • In Context: The Minstrel Show
    • from Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion: Or Life in New York
    • In Context: The Success of Fashion
    • Elizabeth Oakes Smith, “The Drowned Mariner”
    • from George Lippard, The Quaker City; or The Monks of Monk-Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime
    • anonymous, Davy Crockett Tales
    • Phoebe Cary, “Homes for All”
    • Wilhelm Weitling, “Der Kleine Kommunist” (“The Little Communist”)
    • John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Barefoot Boy”
    • from Godey’s Lady’s Book, October 1857
      • Virginia De Forrest, “The Sisters”
      • “Enigmas”
      • Selected Fashion Illustrations
      • from Sarah Hale, “Editor’s Table”
      • from Alice B. Neal, “The Servant Question”
      • Florence Fashionhunter, “Reminiscences of Bonnets”
    • anonymous, “The Beautiful Snow”
    • from William J. Wilson, Speech Delivered at Newark, New Jersey, 1 August 1859
    • In Context: The First of August
    • from William J. Wilson, Afric-American Picture Gallery
    • William Dean Howells, “The Poet’s Friends”
    • Frances Sophia Stoughton Pratt, The “Cattle” to the “Poet”
    • anonymous, “Right Names”
    • anonymous (“A Mechanic’s Wife”), “Capital and Labor”
    • from Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
    • from Ann S. Stephens, Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter
    • from Edward S. Ellis, Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier
    • R.W. Hume, “John Chinaman”
    • Sarah Helen Whitman, Poems
      • from “Woman’s Sphere”
      • “Science”
  • Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat
    • from Ethel’s Love-Life
  • Harriet Wilson
    • from Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North
  • William and Ellen Craft
    • from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
  • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
    • The Slave Mother
    • Bible Defense of Slavery
    • Eliza Harris
    • Ethiopia
    • Advice to the Girls
    • A Mother’s Heroism
    • The Fugitive’s Wife
    • Bury Me in a Free Land
    • Vashti
    • Learning to Read
    • In Context: Learning to Read and Write before Emancipation
    • Aunt Chloe
    • The Rallying Cry
    • A Double Standard
    • The Colored People in America
    • We Are All Bound Up Together
    • The Triumph of Freedom—A Dream
    • from Fancy Sketches
    • Letters
      • Breathing the Air of Freedom, 12 September 1856
      • letter to John Brown, 25 November 1859
      • letter to William Still, 5 July 1871
  • John Rollin Ridge / Yellow Bird
    • from The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta
    • In Context: Sensational News of Joaquín Murieta!
  • Contexts: Gender and Sexuality
    • Women in the Public Sphere
      • from Charles Sigourney, letter to Lydia Sigourney, October 1827
      • from Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, July 1837
      • Maria W. Chapman, “The Times That Try Men’s Souls”
      • from Report of the Proceedings of the Colored National Convention Held at Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday, September 6, 1848
      • from the abstract of Richard Henry Dana Sr., Woman
      • from Lucretia Mott, Discourse on Women
      • “Woman’s Emancipation” and “Fashions for August,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
    • Marriage and Domestic Life
      • from T.S. Arthur, The Young Wife’s Book
      • from Matthew Hale Smith, Counsels Addressed to Young Ladies and Young Men
      • Armand Lanusse, “Epigram”
      • from Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy
    • Gender Crossing
      • anonymous, “The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman,” The Knickerbocker
      • from J.D. Borthwick, Three Years in California
      • Images: Charlotte Cushman
      • from Loreta Velázquez, The Woman in Battle
      • “Thirty Years in Disguise,” The New York Times
      • Images: Two-Spirit People
    • Masculinity, Race, and Class
      • from Joseph Holt Ingraham, Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf
      • from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
      • from Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman
      • from Frederick Douglass, Self-Made Men
      • The Counter-Jumper
        • from anonymous, “Natural History. The Counter-Jumper,” Vanity Fair
        • anonymous [probably Fitz-James O’Brien], “Counter-Jumps,” Vanity Fair
    • Same-Sex Friendship, Sex, and Love
      • from Philip Van Buskirk, Diary
      • Bayard Taylor, “To a Persian Boy, in the Bazaar at Smyrna”
      • from Rev. William Alger, “The Literature of Friendship”
      • from Anna Cora Mowatt, “Woman- Friendship,” Women of the South Distinguished in Literature
      • Addie Brown, letter to Rebecca Primus, 20 August 1859
  • Emily Dickinson
    • [It’s all I have to bring today –]
    • [I never lost as much but twice –]
    • [I robbed the woods –]
    • [These are the days when Birds come back ˎ]
      • [alternative versions]
    • [Success is counted sweetest]
    • [Safe in their Alabaster Chambers –]
      • [alternative versions]
    • [Besides the Autumn poets sing]
    • [All overgrown by cunning moss,]
    • [I’m “wife” – I’ve finished that –]
    • [Title divine – is mine!]
    • [Faith is a fine invention]
      • [alternative version]
    • [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church –]
    • [The Lamp burns sure – within –]
    • [I came to buy a smile – today –]
    • [I’m Nobody! Who are you?]
    • [Wild nights – Wild nights!]
      • [alternative versions]
    • [Over the fence –]
    • [I taste a liquor never brewed –]
      • [alternative version]
    • [There’s a certain Slant of light,]
    • [“Hope” is the thing with feathers –]
    • [Your Riches – taught me – Poverty.]
    • [I found the words to every thought]
    • [I like a look of Agony,]
    • [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,]
    • [It was not Death, for I stood up,]
    • [A Bird came down the Walk –]
    • [I know that He exists.]
    • [After great pain, a formal feeling comes –]
    • [This World is not conclusion.]
    • [I like to see it lap the Miles –]
    • [The Soul selects her own Society –]
    • [One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted –]
    • [They shut me up in Prose –]
    • [This was a Poet –]
    • [I died for Beauty – but was scarce]
    • [The Malay – took the Pearl –]
    • [Our journey had advanced –]
    • [Because I could not stop for Death –]
    • [I dwell in Possibility –]
    • [He fumbles at your Soul]
    • [It feels a shame to be Alive –]
    • [This is my letter to the World]
    • [I’m sorry for the Dead – Today –]
    • [I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –]
    • [The Brain – is wider than the Sky –]
    • [There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House,]
    • [I measure every Grief I meet]
    • [Much Madness is divinest Sense –]
    • [I started Early – Took my Dog –]
    • [That I did always love]
    • [What Soft – Cherubic Creatures –]
    • [My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –]
    • [“Nature” is what We see –]
    • [I could bring You Jewels – had I a mind to –]
    • [Publication – is the Auction]
    • [Truth – is as old as God –]
    • [I never saw a Moor –]
    • [Color – Caste – Denomination –]
    • [She rose to His Requirement – dropt]
    • [The Poets light but Lamps –]
    • [A Man may make a Remark –]
    • [Banish Air from Air –]
    • [As imperceptibly as Grief]
    • [The Heart has narrow Banks]
    • [Could I but ride indefinite]
    • [As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies]
    • [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]
      • [alternative versions]
    • [The Bustle in a House]
    • [A Spider sewed at Night]
    • [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant –]
      • [alternative version]
    • [To pile like Thunder to its close]
    • [Apparently with no surprise]
    • [A Word made Flesh is seldom]
    • [My life closed twice before its close;]
    • [To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,]
    • In Context: The Reception of Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century
    • Alternative Transcriptions of Dickinson’s Poems
    • Fascicle 13
    • Dickinson’s Personal Correspondence
    • In Context: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Emily Dickinson’s Letters
  • Rebecca Harding Davis
    • Life in the Iron-Mills
    • In Context: Pittsburgh and the Mills and Mines of Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania
  • Louisa May Alcott
    • My Contraband
    • from Little Women: Part Second
    • In Context: Little Women Illustrated
    • In Context: Contemporary Reviews of Little Women Parts One and Two
    • [Note to Instructors: Little Women is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume.]
  • Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
    • Hearing the Battle—July 21, 1861
    • Army of Occupation
    • Shapes of a Soul
    • Giving Back the Flower
    • The End of the Rainbow
    • An After-Poem
    • There Was a Rose
    • Another War
    • Mock Diamonds
    • The Old Slave-Music
    • Her Blindness in Grief
    • The Palace-Burner
    • In Context: The Pétroleuse
    • The Black Princess
    • Over in Kentucky
    • We Two
    • A Pique at Parting
    • The First Party
    • A Woman’s Last Word
    • A New Thanksgiving
  • Appendices
    • Reading Poetry
    • [Note to Instructors and Students: See the anthology’s companion website for further supplemental resources, including a selection of historical maps and an interactive timeline.]
    • Glossary of Terms
    • Glossary of Poeti
      c Terms
    • Maps
    • Permissions Acknowledgments
    • Index of Authors and Titles

GENERAL EDITORS

Derrick R. Spires, Cornell University
Rachel Greenwald Smith, Saint Louis University
Christina Roberts, Seattle University
Joseph Rezek, Boston University
Justine S. Murison, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Laura L. Mielke, University of Kansas
Christopher Looby, UCLA
Rodrigo Lazo, UC Santa Cruz
Alisha Knight, Washington College
Hsuan L. Hsu, UC Davis
Michael Everton, Simon Fraser University
Christine Bold, University of Guelph

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