The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Ninth Edition) (Vol. Package 1: Volumes A and B)

COVER......Page 1 TITLE PAGE......Page 2 CONTENTS......Page 7 PERFACE......Page 17 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ......Page 29 INTRODUCTION ......Page 35 TIMELINE ......Page 58 NATIVE AMERICAN ORAL LITERATURE ......Page 61 The Iroquois Creation Story......Page 63 The Navajo Creation Story......Page 67 Hajíínéí (The Emergence)......Page 68 From The Winnebago Trickster Cycle (edited by Paul Radin)......Page 75 From The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake......Page 79 Powhatan’s Discourse of Peace and War......Page 84 King Philip’s Speech......Page 85 POETRY ......Page 86 Cherokee War Song......Page 87 Two Cherokee Songs of Friendship......Page 89 Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)......Page 90 Letter of Discovery (February 15, 1493)......Page 91 From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage (July 7, 1503)......Page 96 Bartolomé de las Casas (1474–1566)......Page 98 From An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies......Page 100 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490–1558)......Page 103 [Dedication]......Page 105 [The Malhado Way of Life]......Page 106 [Our Life among the Avavares and Arbadaos]......Page 107 [Pushing On]......Page 108 [Customs of That Region]......Page 109 [The Falling-Out with Our Countrymen]......Page 110 FIRST ENCOUNTERS: EARLY EUROPEAN ACCOUNTS OF NATIVE AMERICA ......Page 112 HERNÁN CORTÉS: From Second Letter to the Spanish Crown ......Page 114 THOMAS HARRIOT: From A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia ......Page 119 SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN: From The Voyages of the Sieur de Champlain ......Page 125 ROBERT JUET: From The Third Voyage of Master Henry Hudson ......Page 130 JOHN HECKEWELDER: From History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations ......Page 135 WILLIAM BRADFORD AND EDWARD WINSLOW: From Mourt’s Relation ......Page 138 John Smith (1580–1631)......Page 142 The Third Book. From Chapter 2. What Happened till the First Supply......Page 145 From A Description of New England......Page 154 From New England’s Trials......Page 158 William Bradford (1590–1657)......Page 161 From Chapter I. [The English Reformation]......Page 164 Chapter IV. Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal......Page 166 From Chapter VII. Of Their Departure from Leyden......Page 169 Chapter IX. Of Their Voyage, and How They Passed the Sea; and of Their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod......Page 173 Chapter X. Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation; and What Befell Them Thereabout......Page 176 Chapter XI. The Remainder of Anno 1620......Page 181 [Difficult Beginnings]......Page 182 [Dealings with the Natives]......Page 183 Chapter XIX. Anno 1628 [Mr. Morton of Merrymount]......Page 186 Chapter XXIII. Anno 1632 [Prosperity Weakens Community]......Page 190 Chapter XXV. Anno 1634 [Troubles to the West]......Page 191 Chapter XXVII. Anno 1636 [War Threats]......Page 193 Chapter XXVIII. Anno 1637 [War with the Pequots]......Page 194 Chapter XXXII. Anno 1642 [A Horrible Truth]......Page 197 Chapter XXXIV. Anno 1644 [Proposed Removal to Nauset]......Page 198 Thomas Morton (c. 1579–1647)......Page 199 Chapter XIV. Of the Revels of New Canaan ......Page 201 Chapter XV. Of a Great Monster Supposed to Be at Ma-re Mount ......Page 204 Chapter XVI. How the Nine Worthies Put Mine Host of Ma-re Mount into the Enchanted Castle at Plymouth ......Page 207 John Winthrop (1588–1649)......Page 208 A Model of Christian Charity......Page 210 From The Journal of John Winthrop......Page 221 The Bay Psalm Book......Page 230 Psalm 2 [“Why rage the Heathen furiously?”]......Page 231 Psalm 19 [“The heavens do declare”]......Page 232 Psalm 23 [“The Lord to me a shepherd is”]......Page 233 Psalm 100 [“Make ye a joyful sounding noise”]......Page 234 Roger Williams (c. 1603–1683)......Page 235 To My Dear and Well-Beloved Friends and Countrymen, in Old and New England ......Page 237 Directions for the Use of Language ......Page 240 From Chapter II. Of Eating and Entertainment ......Page 241 From Chapter XVIII. Of the Sea ......Page 242 From XXI. Of Religion, the Soul, etc. ......Page 243 From Chapter XXX. Of Their Paintings ......Page 246 From Christenings Make Not Christians ......Page 247 Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672)......Page 249 The Prologue......Page 251 In Honor of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory......Page 252 To the Memory of My Dear and Ever Honored Father Thomas Dudley Esq.......Page 256 Contemplations......Page 258 The Flesh and the Spirit......Page 265 Before the Birth of One of Her Children......Page 268 To My Dear and Loving Husband......Page 269 Another [Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment]......Page 270 In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659......Page 271 In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet......Page 273 On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet......Page 274 Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House......Page 275 As Weary Pilgrim......Page 277 To My Dear Children......Page 278 Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705)......Page 281 From The Day of Doom......Page 282 Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637–1711)......Page 299 A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson......Page 301 Edward Taylor (c. 1642–1729)......Page 333 Prologue......Page 334 Meditation 8 (First Series)......Page 335 The Preface......Page 336 Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children......Page 338 Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold......Page 339 Huswifery......Page 340 Samuel Sewall (1652–1730)......Page 341 From The Diary of Samuel Sewall......Page 342 The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial......Page 349 Cotton Mather (1663–1728)......Page 353 [A People of God in the Devil’s Territories]......Page 354 [The Trial of Martha Carrier]......Page 357 Galeacius Secundus: The Life of William Bradford, Esq., Governor of Plymouth Colony......Page 360 Nehemias Americanus: The Life of John Winthrop, Esq., Governor of the Massachusetts Colony......Page 366 A Notable Exploit: Dux Fœmina Facti......Page 381 From Essays to Do Good......Page 383 Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)......Page 388 Personal Narrative......Page 390 On Sarah Pierpont......Page 400 Sarah Edwards’s Narrative......Page 401 A Divine and Supernatural Light......Page 409 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God......Page 422 AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION ......Page 435 THE JESUIT RELATIONS ......Page 437 JÉRÔME LALEMANT: From How Father Isaac Jogues Was Taken by the Iroquois, and What He Suffered on His First Entrance into Their Country......Page 438 P. F. X. DE CHARLEVOIX: From Catherine Tegahkouita: An Iroquois Virgin......Page 442 Love Opened a Mortal Wound......Page 447 FRANCIS DANIEL PASTORIUS: [In These Seven Languages]......Page 448 ELIZABETH ASHBRIDGE: From Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge......Page 449 JOHN WOOLMAN: From The Journal of John Woolman......Page 455 JOHN MARRANT: From A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealingswith John Marrant, a Black......Page 460 REBECCA SAMUEL: Letters to Her Parents......Page 465 SAGOYEWATHA: Reply to the Missionary Jacob Cram......Page 468 Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)......Page 471 The Way to Wealth......Page 474 The Speech of Miss Polly Baker......Page 481 Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One......Page 483 Information to Those Who Would Remove to America......Page 488 Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America......Page 494 The Autobiography......Page 498 [Part One]......Page 499 [Part Two]......Page 546 [Part Three]......Page 563 Samson Occom (1723–1792)......Page 617 From An Account of the Mohawk Indians, on Long Island......Page 620 A Short Narrative of My Life......Page 621 From A Sermon at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian......Page 627 The Sufferings of Christ, or Throughout the Saviour’s Life We Trace......Page 638 A Morning Hymn, or Now the Shades of Night Are Gone......Page 639 A Son’s Farewell, or I Hear the Gospel’s Joyful Sound......Page 640 ETHNOGRAPHIC AND NATURALIST WRITINGS ......Page 641 SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT: From The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York in the Year 1704 ......Page 642 WILLIAM BYRD: From The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover 1710–1712 ......Page 648 From The History of the Dividing Line......Page 650 ALEXANDER HAMILTON: From Hamilton’s Itinerarium ......Page 654 WILLIAM BARTRAM: Anecdotes of an American Crow ......Page 657 HENDRICK AUPAUMUT: From History of the Muh-he-con-nuk Indians ......Page 661 J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735–1813)......Page 666 From Letter III. What Is an American?......Page 668 From Letter IX. Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; on Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene......Page 677 From Letter X. On Snakes; and on the Humming Bird......Page 682 From Letter XII. Distresses of a Frontier Man......Page 683 Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736–1801)......Page 689 A Hymn Written in the Year 1753......Page 691 An Elegiak Ode on the 28th Day of February [1782]. The Anniversary of Mr. [Stockton’s] Death......Page 692 Addressed to General Washington, in the Year 1777, after the Battles of Trenton and Princeton......Page 694 John Adams (1735–1826) and Abigail Adams (1744–1818)......Page 696 [Classical Parallels]......Page 698 [Prayers at the Congress]......Page 699 [Dr. Franklin]......Page 700 [Prejudice in Favor of New England]......Page 701 [The Building Up a Great Empire]......Page 702 [Remember the Ladies]......Page 704 [These colonies are free and independent states]......Page 706 [Reflections on the Declaration of Independence]......Page 707 [The Declaration. Smallpox. The Grey Horse]......Page 709 [Do My Friends Think I Have Forgotten My Wife and Children?]......Page 710 [Smallpox. The Proclamation for Independence Read Aloud]......Page 711 Thomas Paine (1737–1809) ......Page 713 Introduction......Page 714 From III. Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs......Page 715 The Crisis, No. 1......Page 721 Chapter I. The Author’s Profession of Faith......Page 727 Chapter II. Of Missions and Revelations......Page 729 Chapter XI. Of the Theology of the Christians, and the True Theology......Page 730 Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)......Page 734 From The Declaration of Independence......Page 736 From Query V. Cascades [Natural Bridge]......Page 743 From Query XIV. Laws [Slavery]......Page 744 Query XVII. [Religion]......Page 749 Query XIX. [Manufactures]......Page 752 The Federalist......Page 753 No. 1 [Alexander Hamilton]......Page 755 No. 10 [James Madison]......Page 758 Olaudah Equiano (1745?–1797)......Page 763 From Chapter 1......Page 765 Chapter II......Page 767 From Chapter III......Page 777 From Chapter IV......Page 779 From Chapter V......Page 783 From Chapter VI......Page 787 From Chapter VII......Page 795 From Chapter IX......Page 799 Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820)......Page 802 On the Equality of the Sexes......Page 804 Philip Freneau (1752–1832)......Page 812 The Wild Honey Suckle......Page 813 The Indian Burying Ground......Page 814 To Sir Toby......Page 815 On Mr. Paine’s Rights of Man......Page 817 On the Religion of Nature......Page 818 Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784)......Page 819 To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth......Page 821 To the University of Cambridge, in New England......Page 822 On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770......Page 823 Thoughts on the Works of Providence......Page 824 To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works......Page 827 To His Excellency General Washington......Page 828 To Rev. Samson Occom (Feb. 11, 1774)......Page 830 Royall Tyler (1757–1826)......Page 831 The Contrast......Page 833 Hannah Webster Foster (1758–1840)......Page 873 Letter I......Page 875 Letter II......Page 876 Letter III......Page 877 Letter IV......Page 878 Letter V......Page 879 Letter VI......Page 880 Letter VII......Page 881 Letter IX......Page 883 Letter XI......Page 885 Letter XII......Page 886 Letter XIV......Page 888 Letter XV......Page 890 Letter XVII......Page 891 Letter XVIII......Page 892 Letter XIX......Page 893 Letter XX......Page 895 Letter XXI......Page 896 Letter XXIII......Page 897 Letter XXIV......Page 899 Letter XXVI......Page 900 Letter XXVIII......Page 904 Letter XXIX......Page 905 Letter XXX......Page 907 Letter XXXI......Page 909 Letter XXXII......Page 910 Letter XXXIV......Page 911 Letter XXXV......Page 912 Letter XXXVI......Page 913 Letter XXXVIII......Page 914 Letter XXXIX......Page 915 Letter XL......Page 917 Letter XLI......Page 922 Letter XLII......Page 928 Letter XLIII......Page 929 Letter XLIV......Page 930 Letter XLV......Page 931 Letter XLVI......Page 932 Letter XLVII......Page 933 Letter XLVIII......Page 934 Letter XLIX......Page 935 Letter L......Page 936 Letter LI......Page 937 Letter LII......Page 938 Letter LIII......Page 939 Letter LIV......Page 940 Letter LV......Page 941 Letter LVI......Page 943 Letter LVII......Page 944 Letter LVIII......Page 946 Letter LIX......Page 947 Letter LX......Page 948 Letter LXI......Page 950 Letter LXII......Page 951 Letter LXIII......Page 952 Letter LXIV......Page 953 Letter LXV......Page 954 Letter LXVI......Page 955 Letter LXVII......Page 959 Letter LXVIII......Page 963 Letter LXIX......Page 964 Letter LXX......Page 965 Letter LXXI......Page 967 Letter LXXII......Page 969 Letter LXXIII......Page 970 Letter LXXIV......Page 971 Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810)......Page 973 Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist......Page 975 NATIVE AMERICAN ELOQUENCE: NEGOTIATION AND RESISTANCE ......Page 1017 CANASSATEGO: Speech at Lancaster ......Page 1018 PONTIAC: Speech at Detroit ......Page 1021 LOGAN: From Chief Logan’s Speech ......Page 1023 CHEROKEE WOMEN: To Governor Benjamin Franklin ......Page 1025 TECUMSEH: Speech to the Osages ......Page 1026 Washington Irving (1783–1859) ......Page 1028 Book II, Chapter I [Hudson Discovers New York]......Page 1030 Rip Van Winkle......Page 1035 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES ......Page 1049 PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ......Page 1059 INDEX ......Page 1061 COLOR PLATES......Page 1065 MAP......Page 1073 TIMELINE......Page 1074 The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 9e Vol 1/B......Page 1075 TITLE PAGE ......Page 1079 CONTENTS ......Page 1080 PREFACE ......Page 1090 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ......Page 1102 INTRODUCTION ......Page 1108 TIMELINE ......Page 1127 Washington Irving (1783–1859)......Page 1130 The Author’s Account of Himself......Page 1132 Rip Van Winkle......Page 1134 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow......Page 1146 James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)......Page 1167 The Pioneers......Page 1169 Volume II, Chapter II [The Judge’s History of the Settlement; A Sudden Storm] ......Page 1170 Volume II, Chapter III [The Slaughter of the Pigeons]......Page 1177 The Last of the Mohicans......Page 1184 Volume I, Chapter III [Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook; Stories of the Fathers] ......Page 1185 Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867)......Page 1191 Hope Leslie......Page 1193 Volume I, Chapter IV [Magawisca’s History of “The Pequod War”]......Page 1194 Volume II, Chapter XIV [Magawisca’s Farewell]......Page 1207 Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865)......Page 1211 Death of an Infant......Page 1212 To the First Slave Ship......Page 1213 Indian Names......Page 1214 Slavery......Page 1216 Our Aborigines......Page 1217 Fallen Forests......Page 1218 Erin’s Daughter......Page 1219 Two Old Women......Page 1220 William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)......Page 1221 Thanatopsis......Page 1222 To a Waterfowl......Page 1224 Sonnet—To an American Painter Departing for Europe......Page 1225 The Prairies......Page 1226 The Death of Lincoln......Page 1228 William Apess (1798–1839)......Page 1229 Chapter I......Page 1231 Chapter III......Page 1235 An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man......Page 1240 Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842)......Page 1245 Sweet Willy......Page 1246 To the Pine Tree......Page 1247 Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior......Page 1248 Moowis, the Indian Coquette......Page 1249 The Little Spirit, or Boy-Man......Page 1250 Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880)......Page 1252 The Quadroons......Page 1254 Letter XIV [Burying Ground of the Poor]......Page 1262 Letter XX [Birds]......Page 1266 Letter XXXIV [Women’s Rights]......Page 1271 Letter XXXVI [Barnum’s American Museum]......Page 1276 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)......Page 1283 Nature......Page 1286 The American Scholar......Page 1315 The Divinity School Address......Page 1328 Self-Reliance......Page 1341 The Poet......Page 1359 Experience......Page 1374 John Brown......Page 1390 Thoreau......Page 1392 Each and All......Page 1405 The Snow-Storm......Page 1406 Bacchus......Page 1407 Merlin......Page 1408 Brahma......Page 1411 Letter to Walt Whitman (July 21, 1855)......Page 1412 BLACK HAWK: From Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk ......Page 1413 Speech of the Pawnee Loup Chief......Page 1418 ELIAS BOUDINOT: From the Cherokee Phoenix......Page 1421 Memorial of the Cherokee Council, November 5, 1829......Page 1425 RALPH WALDO EMERSON: Letter to Martin Van Buren......Page 1430 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)......Page 1433 My Kinsman, Major Molineux......Page 1437 Young Goodman Brown......Page 1450 Wakefield......Page 1460 The May-Pole of Merry Mount......Page 1465 The Minister’s Black Veil......Page 1473 The Birth-Mark......Page 1482 The Artist of the Beautiful......Page 1494 Rappaccini’s Daughter......Page 1510 The Scarlet Letter......Page 1530 I. The Prison-door......Page 1556 II. The Market-place......Page 1557 III. The Recognition......Page 1563 IV. The Interview......Page 1569 V. Hester at Her Needle......Page 1573 VI. Pearl......Page 1579 VII. The Governor’s Hall......Page 1585 VIII. The Elf-Child and the Minister......Page 1589 IX. The Leech......Page 1595 X. The Leech and His Patient......Page 1601 XI. The Interior of a Heart......Page 1607 XII. The Minister’s Vigil......Page 1611 XIII. Another View of Hester......Page 1617 XIV. Hester and the Physician......Page 1622 XV. Hester and Pearl......Page 1626 XVI. A Forest Walk......Page 1630 XVII. The Pastor and His Parishioner......Page 1634 XVIII. A Flood of Sunshine......Page 1639 XIX. The Child at the Brook-Side......Page 1643 XX. The Minister in a Maze......Page 1647 XXI. The New England Holiday......Page 1653 XXII. The Procession......Page 1659 XXIII. The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter......Page 1665 XXIV. Conclusion......Page 1670 Preface to The House of the Seven Gables......Page 1674 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)......Page 1676 A Psalm of Life......Page 1678 The Slave Singing at Midnight......Page 1679 The Day Is Done......Page 1680 [Prologue]......Page 1681 The Jewish Cemetery at Newport......Page 1682 My Lost Youth......Page 1684 Hawthorne......Page 1686 The Cross of Snow......Page 1687 John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)......Page 1688 The Hunters of Men......Page 1689 Ichabod!......Page 1691 Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl......Page 1692 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)......Page 1709 To Helen......Page 1713 Israfel......Page 1714 The City in the Sea......Page 1715 Alone......Page 1716 The Raven......Page 1717 To ——. Ulalume: A Ballad......Page 1720 Annabel Lee......Page 1723 Ligeia......Page 1724 The Fall of the House of Usher......Page 1734 William Wilson. A Tale......Page 1747 The Man of the Crowd......Page 1761 The Masque of the Red Death......Page 1767 The Tell-Tale Heart......Page 1771 The Black Cat......Page 1775 The Purloined Letter......Page 1781 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar......Page 1795 The Cask of Amontillado......Page 1801 The Philosophy of Composition......Page 1806 From The Poetic Principle......Page 1815 Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)......Page 1817 A House Divided: Speech Delivered at Springfield, Illinois, at the Close of the Republican State Convention, June 16, 1858......Page 1819 Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863......Page 1825 Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865......Page 1826 Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)......Page 1827 The Great Lawsuit......Page 1830 Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave......Page 1865 Fourth of July......Page 1867 Letter XVIII......Page 1869 SLAVERY, RACE, AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN LITERATURE ......Page 1874 THOMAS JEFFERSON: From Notes on the State of Virginia ......Page 1875 DAVID WALKER: From David Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles ......Page 1878 SAMUEL E. CORNISH AND JOHN B. RUSSWURM: To Our Patrons ......Page 1882 WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON: To the Public ......Page 1885 ANGELINA E. GRIMKÉ: From Appeal to the Christian Women of the South ......Page 1888 SOJOURNER TRUTH: Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851 ......Page 1891 JAMES M. WHITFIELD: Stanzas for the First of August ......Page 1892 MARTIN R. DELANY: From Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent ......Page 1894 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)......Page 1897 Chapter I. In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity......Page 1899 Chapter III. The Husband and Father......Page 1907 Chapter VII. The Mother’s Struggle......Page 1910 Chapter IX. In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man......Page 1920 Chapter XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade......Page 1931 Chapter XIII. The Quaker Settlement......Page 1943 Chapter XIV. Evangeline......Page 1950 Chapter XX. Topsy......Page 1957 From Chapter XXVI. Death......Page 1968 Chapter XXX. The Slave Warehouse......Page 1972 Chapter XXXI. The Middle Passage......Page 1980 Chapter XXXIV. The Quadroon’s Story......Page 1984 Chapter XL. The Martyr......Page 1992 Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton) (1811–1872)......Page 1997 Aunt Hetty on Matrimony......Page 1999 Hungry Husbands......Page 2000 “Leaves of Grass”......Page 2001 Male Criticism on Ladies’ Books......Page 2004 “Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern”......Page 2005 A Law More Nice Than Just......Page 2006 Writing “Compositions”......Page 2008 Chapter LIV......Page 2010 Chapter LVI......Page 2012 Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813–1897)......Page 2014 I. Childhood......Page 2015 VII. The Lover......Page 2018 X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life......Page 2022 XIV. Another Link to Life......Page 2026 XXI. The Loophole of Retreat......Page 2028 XLI. Free at Last......Page 2030 William Wells Brown (1814–1884)......Page 2036 From The Narrative of the Life and Escape of William Wells Brown......Page 2038 Chapter I. The Negro Sale......Page 2042 Chapter XXIV. The Arrest......Page 2048 Chapter XXV. Death Is Freedom......Page 2051 Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)......Page 2055 Resistance to Civil Government......Page 2058 1. Economy......Page 2075 2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For......Page 2117 3. Reading......Page 2127 4. Sounds......Page 2133 5. Solitude......Page 2142 6. Visitors......Page 2148 7. The Bean-Field......Page 2155 8. The Village......Page 2162 9. The Ponds......Page 2165 10. Baker Farm......Page 2179 11. Higher Laws......Page 2184 12. Brute Neighbors......Page 2191 13. House-Warming......Page 2198 14. Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors......Page 2207 15. Winter Animals......Page 2215 16. The Pond in Winter......Page 2221 17. Spring......Page 2230 18. Conclusion......Page 2241 Slavery in Massachusetts ......Page 2249 From A Plea for Captain John Brown......Page 2260 Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)......Page 2264 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself......Page 2268 Chapter XVII. The Last Flogging......Page 2334 What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?......Page 2341 The Heroic Slave......Page 2344 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PRE–CIVIL WAR NATION ......Page 2373 JACOB BIGELOW: From Elements of Technology......Page 2374 NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS: From The Pencil of Nature. A New Discovery......Page 2377 CHARLES DICKENS: From American Notes for General Circulation......Page 2379 HARRIET FARLEY: From Suicide......Page 2382 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: From American Note-Books......Page 2386 ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT: From Cosmos......Page 2387 EDGAR ALLAN POE: From Eureka: A Prose Poem......Page 2390 JOSIAH C. NOTT AND GEORGE R. GLIDDON: From Types of Mankind......Page 2394 FREDERICK DOUGLASS: From The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered......Page 2396 Walt Whitman (1819–1892)......Page 2399 Preface to Leaves of Grass......Page 2402 Song of Myself......Page 2417 From Pent-up Aching Rivers......Page 2462 A Woman Waits for Me......Page 2463 Spontaneous Me......Page 2465 Facing West from California’s Shores......Page 2466 Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand......Page 2467 Here the Frailest Leaves of Me......Page 2468 Crossing Brooklyn Ferry......Page 2469 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking......Page 2473 As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life......Page 2478 When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer......Page 2480 Beat! Beat! Drums!......Page 2481 Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night......Page 2482 A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim......Page 2483 The Wound-Dresser......Page 2484 As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado......Page 2486 When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d......Page 2487 The Sleepers......Page 2493 Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson......Page 2500 Live Oak, with Moss......Page 2507 From Democratic Vistas......Page 2511 Herman Melville (1819–1891)......Page 2515 Hawthorne and His Mosses......Page 2518 Chapter I. Loomings......Page 2531 Chapter III. The Spouter-Inn......Page 2535 Chapter XXVIII. Ahab......Page 2545 Chapter XXXVI. The Quarter-Deck......Page 2548 Chapter XLI. Moby Dick......Page 2553 Chapter XLII. The Whiteness of the Whale......Page 2560 Chapter CXXXV. The Chase—Third Day......Page 2566 Epilogue......Page 2573 Bartleby, the Scrivener......Page 2574 The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids......Page 2600 Benito Cereno......Page 2616 Dupont’s Round Fight......Page 2674 A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight......Page 2675 The House-top......Page 2676 The Maldive Shark......Page 2677 Billy Budd, Sailor......Page 2678 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)......Page 2735 Eliza Harris......Page 2736 The Slave Mother......Page 2737 Ethiopia......Page 2738 The Tennessee Hero......Page 2739 Bury Me in a Free Land......Page 2740 Learning to Read......Page 2741 John Rollin Ridge (1827–1867)......Page 2743 From The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta......Page 2745 Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)......Page 2759 112 [Success is counted sweetest]......Page 2763 123 [Besides the Autumn poets sing]......Page 2764 146 [All overgrown by cunning moss]......Page 2765 207 [I taste a liquor never brewed - ]......Page 2766 236 [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - ]......Page 2767 259 [A Clock stopped - ]......Page 2768 279 [Of all the Souls that stand create - ]......Page 2769 There’s a certain slant of light......Page 2771 347 [I dreaded that first Robin, so]......Page 2772 348 [I would not paint - a picture - ]......Page 2773 355 [It was not Death, for I stood up]......Page 2774 359 [A Bird, came down the Walk - ]......Page 2775 372 [After great pain, a formal feeling comes - ]......Page 2776 381 [I cannot dance opon my Toes - ]......Page 2777 409 [The Soul selects her own Society - ]......Page 2778 446 [This was a Poet - ]......Page 2779 475 [Myself was formed - a Carpenter - ]......Page 2780 479 [Because I could not stop for Death - ]......Page 2781 518 [When I was small, a Woman died - ]......Page 2782 576 [The difference between Despair]......Page 2783 598 [The Brain - is wider than the Sky - ]......Page 2784 620 [Much Madness is divinest Sense - ]......Page 2785 648 [I’ve seen a Dying Eye]......Page 2786 675 [What Soft - Cherubic Creatures - ]......Page 2787 706 [I cannot live with You - ]......Page 2788 764 [My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - ]......Page 2790 857 [She rose to His Requirement - dropt]......Page 2791 1096 [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]......Page 2792 1212 [My Triumph lasted till the Drums]......Page 2793 1454 [It sounded as if the Streets were running - ]......Page 2794 1593 [He ate and drank the precious Words - ]......Page 2795 1715 [A word made Flesh is seldom]......Page 2796 Letter Exchange with Susan Gilbert Dickinson on Poem 124......Page 2797 April 15, 1862......Page 2799 April 25, 1862......Page 2800 Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910)......Page 2801 Life in the Iron-Mills......Page 2803 Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)......Page 2830 My Contraband......Page 2832 Part Second. Chapter IV. Literary Lessons......Page 2847 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES ......Page 2854 PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ......Page 2870 INDEX ......Page 2871 COLOR PLATES......Page 2875 MAP......Page 2883 TIMELINE......Page 2884