From Timbuktu to Katrina: Sources in African-American History, Volume 1

SOURCES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY, a new primary and secondary source reader, includes many selections that will be familiar to you, such as THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION or DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING'S LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL. However other documents such as Lucy Parson's 1886 speech, "I AM AN ANARCHIST" or AFRICAN AMERICANS AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY: A MANIFESTO are included precisely because the rarely gain exposure beyond the gaze of a handful of experts in a particular subfield of African American history. This two-volume reader begins with medieval readings from the continent of Africa up to readings related to the events of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to encompass the enormous breadth and range of documents that reflect on African American life in the United States. Front Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 2 Copyright......Page 3 Contents ......Page 5 Preface ......Page 10 ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 13 CHAPTER 1 The African Background......Page 16 Audiences of the Sultan of Mali......Page 17 John Barbot on the Government of Benin, 1682......Page 19 The Slave Trade: A Slaver’s Account......Page 20 The Enslavement of Venture Smith......Page 22 The Middle Passage: A Slave Mutiny, 1704......Page 25 Omar ibn Seid: From Senegal to North Carolina......Page 26 CHAPTER 2 The Evolution of Black Society......Page 28 Isabel de Olvera Arrives in New Mexico......Page 29 A New Netherlands Petition for Freedom, 1661......Page 30 African vs. Indian Slavery......Page 31 Eighteenth-Century Black Slave Codes......Page 32 Darien, Georgia Protest Against Slavery, 1739......Page 34 The Stono Rebellion, 1739......Page 35 The New York City Slave Plot, 1741: Statement of a Condemned Man......Page 36 CHAPTER 3 Slavery and Freedom in the Revolutionary Era......Page 40 A Funeral for Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, and James Caldwell......Page 42 Massachusetts Slaves Petition for Freedom, 1773......Page 43 Caesar Sarter’s Essay on Slavery, August 17, 1774......Page 44 A Proclamation......Page 47 Colonel Tye: Black Loyalist Leader......Page 48 Rhode Island Enlists Slaves in Its Colonial Militia......Page 50 Petition of New Hampshire Slaves, 1779......Page 51 The Founding of Los Angeles......Page 53 The End of Slavery in Massachusetts, 1783......Page 54 To the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina......Page 56 The Debate over the Black Mind......Page 57 To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Secretary of State for North America, etc.......Page 59 Founding the African Methodist Episcopal Church......Page 60 Benjamin Banneker’s Letter to Thomas Jefferson......Page 61 CHAPTER 4 American Slavery......Page 64 A Northerner’s Description of Slavery......Page 66 An Alabama Lynching, 1827......Page 67 Moses Grandy on Slavery and Social Control......Page 69 A North Carolina Act Prohibiting the Teaching of Slaves to Read......Page 70 Slavery and Sexual Abuse: The Saga of Louisa Picquet......Page 71 The Letters of Enslaved Women, 1840 to 1859......Page 72 Solomon Northup Describes a Slave Auction, 1841......Page 74 Gabriel Prosser’s Conspiracy......Page 77 Nat Turner’s Revolt: The Impact in the Slave Quarters......Page 79 Slavery and Freedom in Indian Territory......Page 81 Harriet Elgin and Rebecca Jones on the Underground Railroad......Page 82 Two Fugitive Slaves Respond to Their Former Owners......Page 85 Fanny Perry’s Letter to Her Husband, 1862......Page 87 CHAPTER 5 Free Blacks in a Slave Society......Page 88 Louisiana’s Free People of Color Pledge Loyalty to the United States, 1804......Page 90 General Andrew Jackson Praises a New Orleans Militia, 1815......Page 91 Proclamation To the Free Colored Inhabitants of Louisiana......Page 92 Grace Douglass Calls for Frugal Living, 1819......Page 93 Constitution of the Colored Female Religious and Moral Society of Salem......Page 94 Constitution of the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem......Page 95 Freedom’s Journal’s First Editorial......Page 96 Black Cincinnati Children Speak of Slavery, 1834......Page 97 Santa Anna and Black Freedom......Page 98 The North Star: The First Editorial......Page 99 The Fugitive Slave Act in Practice: Rachel Parker’s Kidnapping......Page 100 Harriet Tubman Rescues a Fugitive Slave......Page 101 ‘‘A Nation Within a Nation’’......Page 102 Black Self-Esteem: The Nineteenth-Century Debate......Page 104 Address to the People of California, 1855......Page 105 Philadelphia African Americans Protest the Dred Scott Decision, 1857......Page 106 Wisconsin African Americans Demand the Vote, 1857......Page 107 Supporting the New Republican Party......Page 108 John A. Copeland Awaits His Execution......Page 109 CHAPTER 6 The Civil War......Page 110 Seeking the Right to Fight, 1861......Page 112 The Victoria Club Ball, 1862......Page 114 Abduction of the Confederate Steamer Planter from Charleston, S.C., May 13, 1862......Page 115 Headquarters, Department of the South......Page 117 Charlotte Forten Teaches the Freed People......Page 119 Susie King Taylor and Black Freedom......Page 120 ‘‘Men of Color, To Arms!’’......Page 122 The New York Draft Riot: Eyewitness Accounts......Page 125 Lewis Douglass’s Letter to His Sweetheart......Page 126 Memphis African Americans Proclaim the Meaning of Freedom, 1864......Page 127 The Second Kansas Colored Infantry at War......Page 128 Sojourner Truth Meets President Lincoln......Page 131 Hon. E. Barksdale, House of Representatives, Richmond......Page 132 A Black Soldier Describes the Fall of Richmond, 1865......Page 133 Elizabeth Keckley at the White House......Page 135 CHAPTER 7 Reconstruction......Page 138 Felix Haywood Remembers the Day of Jublio......Page 140 The Black Codes in Louisiana......Page 141 Mrs. Lucy Tibbs questioned by the Chairman, Congressman Elihu B. Washburne of Illinois......Page 142 ‘‘Send Me Some of the Children’s Hair’’......Page 144 Response of the President......Page 145 Sharecropping Emerges in the Post-Civil War South......Page 146 Thaddeus Stevens Demands Black Suffrage......Page 149 Black Voting Rights: Two Views from the Far West......Page 150 An Anxious Aunt Writes to Nashville’s Colored High School......Page 151 The Ordeal of Amanda Redmond......Page 152 Frederick Douglass Describes the ‘‘Composite Nation’’......Page 153 Helena Citizens Celebrate Their New Rights......Page 154 Black Women and Work in Philadelphia, 1871......Page 155 Article 14 - Citizenship Rights Not To Be Abridged......Page 156 Francis Cardozo Urges the Dissolution of the Plantation System......Page 157 Senator Hirim Revels Calls for the End of Segregated Schools......Page 160 Frances Rollin’s Diary......Page 162 CHAPTER 8 Into the Twentieth Century......Page 164 Willianna Hickman: Bound for Nicodemus......Page 166 A Mississippi Teacher Writes to the Governor of Kansas......Page 167 Buffalo Soldiers Rescue a New Mexico Town......Page 168 A Washerwoman’s Strike in Atlanta, 1881......Page 169 ‘‘They are trying to prevent those who are not members from washing, are they not?’’......Page 170 Lucy Parsons: ‘‘I Am an Anarchist’’......Page 171 William Hannibal Thomas on Reparations, 1887......Page 173 ‘‘Organized Resistance Is Our Best Remedy’’......Page 175 Eliza Grier: From Enslaved Woman to Medical Doctor......Page 177 Address of the Afro-American League......Page 178 Labor and Race: Strikebreaking Black Coal Miners Defend Their Actions......Page 180 Frederick Douglass & Anna J. Cooper on Gender Equality in the 1890s......Page 181 The Atlanta Compromise Speech......Page 183 The Conservation of the Races......Page 186 The Lynching of a Postmaster, 1898......Page 187 Jack Trice Fights his Attackers......Page 188 The Wilmington Massacre, 1898: An Eyewitness Report......Page 189 The Philadelphia Negro......Page 191