Oratory has played a vital role in struggles for liberation and social reform throughout U.S. history. Containing more than 150 speeches, this volume represents the most extensive and diverse collection of African American oratory of the 18th and 19th centuries ever published.

Acknowledgements	p. v
Introduction	p. 1
Speak to Those Who Are in Slavery	p. 20
You Stand on the Level with the Greatest Kings on Earth	p. 27
A Charge Delivered to the Brethren of the African Lodge	p. 38
Pray God Give us the Strength to Bear Up Under All Our Troubles	p. 45
Address to the People of Color	p. 52
Eulogy for Washington	p. 56
Universal Salvation	p. 59
Abolition of the Slave Trade	p. 66
A Thanksgiving Sermon	p. 73
Mutual Interest, Mutual Benefit, and Mutual Relief	p. 80
A Sermon Preached on the Funeral Occasion of Mary Henery	p. 86
O! Africa	p. 91
Valedictory Address	p. 98
The Condition and Prospects of Haiti	p. 101
Termination of Slavery	p. 104
The Necessity of a General Union Among Us	p. 110
Slavery and Colonization	p. 114
It is Time For Us to be Up and Doing	p. 123
Why Sit Ye Here and Die?	p. 125
Let Us Alone	p. 130
What If I Am a Woman?	p. 135
Eulogy on William Wilberforce	p. 143
The Slavery of Intermperance	p. 145
Why a Convention is Necessary	p. 154
Put on the Armour Of Righteousness	p. 158
The Slave has a Friend in Heaven, Though He May Have None Here	p. 163
On the Improvement of the Mind	p. 166
Predudice Against the Colored Man	p. 168
We Meet the Monster Prejudice Every Where	p. 178
Slavery Presses Down Upon the Free People of Color	p. 179
Let Us Do Justic to an Unfortunate People	p. 182
The Rights of Colored Citizens in Traveling	p. 189
We Must Assert Our Rightful Claims and Plead Our Own Cause	p. 194
An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America	p. 198
For the Dissolution of the Union	p. 205
I am Free from American Slavery	p. 208
Under the Stars and Stripes	p. 210
I Have No Constitution, and No Country	p. 213
A Plea for the Oppressed	p. 220
I Won't Obey the Fugitive Slave Law	p. 223
Ar'nt I a Woman?	p. 226
Orators and Oratory	p. 229
What, to the Slave, Is The Fourth of July?	p. 246
Snakes and Geese	p. 269
I Set Out to Escape from Slavery	p. 271
There is no Full Enjoyment of Freedom for Anyone	p. 273
The Triumph of Equal School Rights in Boston	p. 279
The Negro Race, Self-Government, and the Haitian Revolution	p. 288
Liberty for Slaves	p. 305
If There is No Struggle There is No Progress	p. 308
I Will Sink Or Swim with My Race	p. 313
Break Every Yoke and Let the Oppressed Go Free	p. 318
Should Colored Men be Subject to the Penalties of the Fugitive	p. 322
Why is Slavery Still Rampant	p. 322
I Do Not Believe in that Antislavery of Abraham Lincoln	p. 340
A Plea for Free Speech	p. 354
Let Us Take Up the Sword	p. 357
What if the Slaves are Emancipated?	p. 359
We Ask for Our Rights	p. 368
Lincoln's Colonization Proposal is Anti-Christian	p. 375
The Negroes in the United States of America	p. 377
Freedom's Joyful Day	p. 381
Address to the Youth	p. 384
The Moral and Social Aspect of Africa	p. 389
The Good Time is at Hand	p. 392
The Position and Duties Of The Colored People	p. 397
A Tribute to a Fallen Black Soldier	p. 407
The Mission of the War	p. 410
Give Us Equal Pay and We Will Go to War	p. 426
Let the Monster Perish	p. 432
Colored Men Standing in the Way of Their Own Race	p. 443
An Appeal for Aid to the Freedmen	p. 452
Deliver Us From Such a Moses	p. 454
We Are All Bound Up Together	p. 456
These are Revolutionary Times	p. 460
Equal Rights for All: Three Speeches	p. 463
To My White Fellow Citizens	p. 467
Break Up the Plantation System	p. 469
Justice Should Recognize No Color	p. 473
I Claim the Rights of a Man	p. 475
Finish the Good Work of Uniting Colored and White Working Men	p. 483
Composite Nation	p. 488
Then I Began To Live	p. 503
Abolish Separate Schools	p. 506
The Ku Klux of the North	p. 512
The Right of Women to Vote	p. 514
A Plea in Behalf of the Cuban Revolution	p. 517
The Civil Rights Bill	p. 520
Equality Before the Law	p. 536
The Civil Rights Bill	p. 549
The Great Problem to Be Solved	p. 564
Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln	p. 567
The Sioux's Revenge	p. 577
How Long? How Long, O Heaven?	p. 579
Socialism: The Remedy for the Evils of Society	p. 580
The Destined Superiority of the Negro	p. 589
Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs	p. 599
Race Unity	p. 603
These Evils Call Loudly for Redress	p. 613
Negro Education - Its Help and Hindrances	p. 623
The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain	p. 634
Reasons for a New Political Party	p. 640
The Present Relations of Labor and Capital	p. 642
How Shall We Make the Women of Our Race Stronger?	p. 645
Introduction of Master Workman Powderly	p. 652
I Am An Anarchist	p. 655
Mob Violence	p. 660
How Shall We Get Our Rights?	p. 676
Importance of Race Pride	p. 680
Woman Suffrage	p. 687
I Denounce the So-Called Emancipation as a Stupendous Fraud	p. 693
Organized Resistence is Our Best Remedy	p. 707
National Perils	p. 708
It Is Time to Call a Halt	p. 713
Harvard Class Day Oration	p. 728
Education and the Problem	p. 734
The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States Since the Emancipation Proclamation	p. 761
Women's Cause is One and Universal	p. 772
Justice or Emigration Should be Our Watchword	p. 775
The Ethics Of The Hawaiian Question	p. 790
Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women	p. 797
Atlanta Exposition Address	p. 800
A Plea Against The Disfranchisement Of the Negro	p. 805
The Awakening Of The Afro-American Woman	p. 834
The Awakening of the Afro-American Woman	p. 834
The Attitude of the American Mind Toward the Negro Intellect	p. 846
The Functions of the Negro Scholar	p. 857
Remarks To President Mckinley	p. 861
We Must Have A Cleaner ""Social Morality""	p. 863
The Cancer of Race Prejudice	p. 868
The Negro Will Never Acquiesce as Long as He Lives	p. 872
The Willmington Massacre	p. 875
The Fallacy of Industrial Education as the Solution Of the Race Problem	p. 878
Some Facts About Southern Lynchings	p. 882
The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman	p. 885
The State of the Country from a Black Man's Point of View	p. 890
My Mother as I Recall Her	p. 897
To the Nations of the World	p. 905
Index of Speeches by Author	p. 909
Subject Index	p. 913
About the Editors	p. 926
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