List of Illustrations Introduction Editorial Note Chapter One - Nationalism and Independence Part A) Debating American Freedom 1. Joseph Galloway, A Plan to Avoid War, (Philadelphia, 1774) 2. Edmund Burke, ''On Conciliation with the Colonies'' (London, 1775) 3. Patrick Henry, ''Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death'' (Richmond, Virginia, 1775) 4. Buckongahelas, ''You See a Great and Powerful Nation Divided'' (Delaware, 1781) Part B) Declaring Independence 5. Thomas Jefferson et al., ''The Unanimous Declaration of the United States of America'' (Philadelphia, 1776) 6. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, ''Haitian Declaration of Independence'' (Gonaïves, Saint-Domingue, 1804) 7.
Robert Emmett, ''Speech From the Dock'' (Dublin, 1803) 8. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, ''The Cry of Dolores'' (Dolores, Mexico, 1810) Part C) Pan-Nationalism and Trans-nationalisms 10. Tecumseh, ''Sleep No Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws'' (1811) 11. Jose Martí, ''Mother America'' (New York, 1889) 12. W.E.B. Dubois, ''To the Nations of the World'' (London, 1900) Chapter Two - Gender, Suffrage and Sexuality Part A) Gender Equality 1.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Keynote address at Seneca Falls convention, (Seneca Falls, 1848 2. Sojourner Truth, ''Speech to the Women''s Rights Convention'' (Akron, Ohio, 1851) 3. Sojourner Truth, ''Address to the Equal Rights Association'' (New York City, 1867) 4. Josephine Butler, Speech on Sex Workers'' Rights (Wigan, 1870) Part B) Suffrage for Women 5. Sir Henry James and W.E. Forster, ''The Anti-Suffrage Case'', (London, 1871) 6. Susan B.
Anthony, ''Is it a Crime for a US Citizen to Vote'', (Rochester, NY, 1872) 7. Emmeline Pankhurst, ''Freedom or Death'' (Hartford, 1913) Part C) Sexuality and Reproduction 8. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, ''Enlightened Motherhood'' (Brooklyn, 1895) 9. Oscar Wilde, Speech at Indecency Trial, (London, 1895) 10. Anna Ruling, ''The Women''s Movement and the Homosexual Problem'' (Berlin, 1904) 11. Theodore Roosevelt, ''On American Motherhood'' (Chicago, 1905) Chapter Three - Slavery and Race Part A) Debating Slavery 1. James Penny, Testimony in Defense of a Humane Slave Trade (London, 1788) 2. William Wilberforce, ''Resolutions Respecting the Slave Trade'', (London, 1789) 3.
Absalom Jones, Thanksgiving Sermon (Philadelphia, 1808) 4. John Calhoun, ''Slavery, A Positive Good'', (Washington DC, 1837) 5. Angelina Grimke, ''Speech at Pennsylvania Hall'' (Philadelphia, 1838) 6. Frederick Douglass, ''What to the Slave is July 4th?'' (Rochester, New York, 1852) 7. Henry Ward Beecher, ''Peace, Be Still'' Sermon (Brooklyn, 1861) Part B) Race and Civil Rights 8. David Walker, ''The Necessity of a General Union Among Us'' (Boston 1827) 9. Robert Knox, ''The Races of Man'' (Manchester, 1848) 10. Alexander Crummell, ''The American Mind and Black intellect'' (Washington DC, 1898) 11.
Ida B. Wells, ''Lynch Law in All Its Phases'' (Chicago, January 1900) Chapter Four -Faith, Culture and Society Part A) The Role of Faith 1. Sagoyewatha (''Red Jacket''), Speech on Religious Freedom, (Buffalo Creek, 1805) 2. Larena Lee, ''My Call to Preach the Gospel'' (Philadelphia, 1819) 3. Charles Spurgeon, ''Compel Them to Come In'' (London, 1858) 4. Robert Ingersoll, ''The Gods'' (Fairbury, Illinois, 1873) 5. Swami Vivekanandana, ''Address at the World Parliament of Religions'' (Chicago, 1893) Part B) Culture and Morality 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ''Ethics'', (Boston, 1837) 7.
John Ruskin, ''Traffic'' (Bradford, 1864) 8. Oscar Wilde, ''Lecture to Art Students'', (New York, 1882) 9. William Morris, ''Art and Socialism'', (Leicester, 1884) Part C) Society and Hierarchy 10. Henry ''Orator'' Hunt, ''Speech Spa Fields'', (London, 1816) 11. Benjamin Disraeli, Defense of the Feudal System (London, 1842) 12. Peter H. Clark, ''Socialism: The Remedy for the Evils of Society'' (Chicago, 1877) 13. Lucy Parsons, ''The Principles of Anarchism'' (Kansas City, 1886) 14.
William Jennings Bryan, ''The Cross of Gold Speech'' (Chicago, 1896) Chapter Five - Empire and Manifest Destiny A) Opposing Empire 1. Nan''yehi et al, ''Cherokee Women Address Their Nation'' (Georgia, 1817) 2. Francisco Mejia, Proclamation Against American Usurpation (Matamoros, 1846) 3. John Calhoun, Mexican Annexation and the ''White Race'' (Washington DC, 1848) 4. John Bright, ''Opposition to India Policy'' (London, 1858) 5. William Jennings Bryan, ''Imperialism'' (Kansas City, 1900) Part B) Defending Empire 6. Benjamin Disraeli, ''Crystal Palace Speech'' (London, 1875) 7. Theodore Roosevelt, ''The Strenuous Life'' (Chicago, 1899) 8.
Albert J. Beveridge, ''The Philippines are Ours Forever'' (Washington DC, 1900) Part C) The Irish Question 9. Daniel O''Connell, ''Ireland Shall be Free'', (Mullaghmast, Ireland, 1843) 10. Lewis C. Levin, The Papist Threat (Philadelphia, 1844) 11. William E. Gladstone, In Support of Irish Home Rule, (London, 1886) Part D) Indigenous Rights 12. Andrew Jackson, ''Speech to Congress on Indian Removal'' (Washington DC, 1830) 13.
William Apess, ''Eulogy for King Phillip'' (Boston, 1836) 14. Mark Twain, ''Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands'' (San Francisco, 1868) 15. Dadabhai Naoroji, ''Maiden Speech in Parliament'' (London, 1892) Chapter Six - War and Peace Part A) America''s Path to Disunion 1. Daniel Webster, ''Reply to Hayne'' (Washington DC, 1830) 2. Abraham Lincoln, ''The Lyceum Address'' (Springfield, Illinois, 1838) 3. Charles Sumner, ''The Crime Against Kansas'' (Washington DC, 1856) 4. Abraham Lincoln, ''A House Divided'', (Springfield, Illinois, 1858) Part B) The Meaning of the American Civil War 5. Alexander Stephens, ''The Cornerstone Speech'' (Savannah, 1861) 6.
William E. Gladstone, The South Has Made a Nation (Newcastle, 1862) 6. Abraham Lincoln, ''The Gettysburg Address'' (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863) 7. Frederick Douglass, ''The Mission of the War'' (New York, 1864) Part B) Pacifisms and Nonviolence 8. Hannah Mather Crocker, ''Fast Sermon Against the War'' (Boston, 1812) 9. Henry David Thoreau, ''The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government'' (Concord, Massachusetts, 1848) 10. John Bright, ''Angel of Death'' (London, 1855) 11. Emma Goldman, ''Patriotism, A Menace to Liberty'' (San Francisco, 1908) Further Reading List of Illustrations.