Lift every voice : African American oratory, 1787-1900 / edited by Philip S. Foner and Robert James Branham.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

I speak to those who are in slavery / Cyrus Bustill -- You stand on the level with the greatest kings on Earth / John Marrant -- A charge delivered to the brethren of the African lodge / Prince Hall -- Pray God give us the strength to bear up under all our troubles / Prince Hall -- Address to the people of color / Abraham Johnstone -- Eulogy for Washington / Richard Allen -- Universal salvation / Lemuel Haynes -- Abolition of the slave trade / Peter Williams, Jr. -- A Thanksgiving sermon / Absalom Jones -- Mutual interest, mutual benefit, and mutual relief / William Hamilton -- A sermon preached on the funeral occasion of Mary Henery / George White -- O! Africa / William Hamilton -- Valedictory address / Margaret Odell -- The condition and prospects of Haiti / John Browne Russwurm -- Termination of slavery / Austin Steward -- The necessity of a general union among us / David Walker -- Slavery and colonization / Peter Williams, Jr. -- The cause of the slave became my own / Sarah M. Douglass -- It is time for us to be up and doing / Peter Osborne -- Why sit ye here and die? / Maria W. Stewart -- Let us alone / Nathaniel Paul -- What if I am a woman? / Maria W. Stewart -- Eulogy on William Wilberforce / William Whipper -- The slavery of intemperance / William Whipper -- Why a convention is necessary / William Hamilton -- Put on the armour of righteousness / James Forten, Jr. -- The slave has a friend in heaven, though he may have none here / Theodore S. Wright -- One the improvement of the mind / Elizabeth Jennings -- Prejudice against the colored man / Theodore S. Wright --

Slavery brutalizes man / Daniel A. Payne -- We meet with monster prejudice every where / Clarissa C. Lawrence -- Slavery presses down upon the free people of color / Andrew Harris -- Let us do justice to an unfortunate people / Thomas Paul -- The rights of colored citizens in traveling / Charles Lenox Remond -- We must assert our rightful claims and plead our own cause / Samuel H. Davis -- An address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet -- For the dissolution of the Union / Charles Lenox Remond -- I am free from American slavery / Lewis Richardson -- Under the stars and stripes / William Wells Brown -- I have no constitution, and no country / William Wells Brown -- The fugitive slave bill / Samuel Ringgold Ward -- A plea for oppressed / Lucy Stanton -- I won't obey the fugitive slave law / Reverend Jermain Wesley Loguen -- Ar'n't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth -- Orators and oratory / William G. Allen -- What, to the slave, is the fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass -- Snakes and geese / Sojourner Truth -- I set out to escape from slavery / Stephen Pembroke -- There is no full enjoyment of freedom for anyone in this country / John Mercer Langston -- The triumph of equal school rights in Boston / William C. Nell -- What, to the toiling millions there, is this boasted liberty? / Sara G. Stanley -- The Negro race, self-government, and the Haitian revolution / James T. Holly -- Liberty for slaves / Frances Ellen Watkins -- Liberty for slaves / Frances Ellen Watkins -- If there is no struggle there is no progress / Frederick Douglass -- I will sink or swim with my race / John S. Rock -- Break every yoke and let the oppressed go free / Mary Ann Shadd -- Should colored men be subject to the penalties of the fugitive slave law? / Charles H. Langston --

Why slavery is still rampant / Sarah Parker Remond -- The American government and the Negro / Robert Purvis -- I do not believe in the antislavery of Abraham Lincoln / H. Ford Douglas -- A plea for free speech / Frederick Douglass -- Let us take up the sword / Alfred M. Green -- What if the slaves are emancipated? / John S. Rock -- We ask for our rights / John S. Rock -- Lincoln's colonization proposal is anti-Christian / Isaiah C. Wears -- The Negroes in the United States of America / Sarah Parker Remond -- Freedom's joyful day / Reverend Jonathan C. Gibbs -- Address to the youth / Sarah J. Woodson -- The moral and social aspect of Africa / Martin Robinson Delany -- The good time is at hand / Robert Purvis -- The position and duties of the colored people / J. W. C. Pennington -- A tribute to a fallen Black soldier / J. Stanley -- The mission of the war / Frederick Douglas -- Give us equal pay and we will go to war / Reverend J. P. Campbell -- Every man should stand equal before the law / Arnold Bertonneau -- Let the monster perish / Henry Highland Garnet -- Colored men standing in the way of their own race / James Lynch -- Advice to ex-slaves / Martin Robinson -- An appeal for aid to the freedmen / J. Sella Martin -- Deliver us from such a Moses / Lewis Hayden -- We are all bound up together / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- These are revolutionary times / Reverend E. J. Adams -- Equal rights for all, three speeches / Sojourner Truth -- To my white fellow citizens / B. K. Sampson -- Break up the plantation system / Francis L. Cardozo -- Justice should recognize no color / William H. Grey -- I claim the rights of a man / Reverend Henry McNeal Turner --

Finish the good work of uniting Colored and White workingmen / Isaac Myers -- Composite nation / Frederick Douglas -- Then I began to live / Sojourner Truth -- Abolish separate schools / Hiram R. Revels -- The ku klux of the north / Isaiah C. Wears -- The right of women to vote / Mary Ann Shadd Cary -- A plea in behalf of the Cuban revolution / Henry Highland Garnet -- The civil rights bill / Robert Browne Elliott -- Equality before law / John Mercer Langston -- The civil rights bill / James T. Rapier -- The great problem to be solved / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Oration in memory of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Douglass -- The Sioux's revenge / B. T. Tanner -- How long? how long, o heaven? / Reverend Henry McNeal Turner -- Socialism : the remedy for evils of society / Peter H. Clark -- Reasons why the Colored American should go to Africa / John E. Bruce -- The destined superiority of the Negro / Alexander Crummell -- Migration is the only remedy for our wrongs / Robert J. Harlan -- Race unity / Ferdinand L. Barnett -- Redeem the Indian / Blanche K. Bruce -- These evils call loudly for redress / John P. Green -- Negro education - its helps and hindrances / William H. Crogman -- The stone cut out of the mountains / John Jasper -- Reasons for a new political party / Reverend Henry McNeal Turner -- The present relations of labor and capital / T. Thomas Fortune -- How shall we make the women of our race stronger? / Olivia A. Davidson -- Introduction of Master Workman Powderly / Frank J. Ferrell -- I am an anarchist / Lucy E. Parsons -- Mob violence / Samuel Allen McElwee --

Woman's place in the work of the denomination / Mary V. Cook -- How shall we get our rights? / Reverend M. Edward Bryant -- Importance of race pride / Edward Everett Brown -- Woman suffrage / Frederick Douglass -- I denounce the so-called emancipation as a stupendous fraud / Frederick Douglass -- Organized resistance is our best remedy / John E. Bruce -- National perils / William Bishop -- It is time to call a halt / T. Thomas Fortune -- Harvard class day oration / Clement Garnett Morgan -- Education and the problem / Joseph C. Price -- Lynch law in all its phases / Ida B. Wells -- The intellectual progress of the Colored women of the United States since the emancipation proclamation / Fannie Barrier Williams -- Women's cause is one and universal / Anna Julia Cooper -- Justice or emigration should be our watchword / Bishop Henry McNeal Turner -- The ethics of the Hawaiian question / William Saunders Scarborough -- Address to the first national conference on Colored women / Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin -- Atlanta exposition address / Booker T. Washington -- A plea against the disfranchisement of the Negro / Thomas E. Miller -- The African in Africa and the African in America / John H. Smyth -- We are struggling for equality / John Hope -- The awakening of the Afro-American woman / Victoria Earle Matthews -- In union there is strength / Mary Church Terrell -- The attitude of the American mind toward the Negro intellect / Alexander Crummell --

The functions of the Negro scholar / G. N. Grisham -- Remarks to President McKinley / Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- We must have a cleaner "social morality" / Margaret Murray Washington -- The cancer of race prejudice / Booker T. Washington -- The Negro will never acquiesce as long as he lives / Reverend Francis J. Grimke -- The Wilmington massacre / Reverend Charles S. Morris -- The fallacy of industrial education as the solution of the race problem / Reverend Charles S. Smith -- Some facts about southern lynchings / Reverend D. A. Graham -- The burden of the educated Colored woman / Lucy Craft Laney -- The sate of the country from a Black man's point of view / Reverend D. P. Brown -- My mother as I recall her / Rosetta Douglass Sprague -- To the nations of the world / W. E. B. Du Bois.