“The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln, on November 19, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that… Read More
Tag: Slavery
Sarah Lougue’s letter to her runaway slave Jermain Wesley Logan (Jarm Logue) His response is included below. February 20th, 1860. To JARM:- I now take my pen to write you a few lines, to let you know how well we all are. I am a cripple, but I am still able to get about. The… Read More
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with… Read More
“Abolition Speech” by William Wilberforce May 12, 1789, at The House of Commons, London When I consider the magnitude of the subject which I am to bring before the House, a subject in which the interests, not of this country nor of Europe alone, but of the whole world and of posterity are involved, and… Read More
