The Norton Anthology of American Literature

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