Milestone Documents in African American History: Exploring the Essential Primary Sources

Milestone Documents in African American History: Exploring the Essential Primary Sources Paul Finkelman, ed. Milestone Documents Dallas, TX: Schlager, 2010. 1841 pp. 4 vols.

Explores the fundamental primary sources in African American history covering 135 iconic primary documents from the 1600s to the present. Each entry offers the full text of the document in question as well as an in-depth, analytical essay that places the document in its historical context.

Front Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Editorial and Production Staff
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Reader's Guide
Introduction
John Rolfe's Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys
Virginia's Act XII: Negro Women's Children to Serve According to the Condition of the Mother
Virginia's Act III: Baptism Does Not Exempt Slaves from Bondage
"A Minute against Slavery, Addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting"
John Woolman's Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court
Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
Slavery Clauses in the U.S. Constitution
Benjamin Banneker's Letter to Thomas Jefferson
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
Richard Allen: "An Address to those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice"
Prince Hall: A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge
Ohio Black Code
Peter Williams, Jr.'s "Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade"
Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm's First Freedom's Journal Editorial
David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the world
State v. Mann
William Lloyd Garrison's First Liberator Editorial
The Confessions of Nat Turner
United States v. Amistad
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
Henry Highland Garnet: "An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America"
William Wells Brown's "Slavery as it is"
First Editorial of the North Star
Roberts v. City of Boston
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?"
Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
Martin Delany: The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

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