Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the Days of Slavery to the Present Time

512 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Frederick Douglass. A collection of speeches by African Americans, including: The People of Hayti and a Plan of Emigration by Prince Saunders; Touissaint L'Ouverture and the Haytian Revolution by James McCune-Smith; Liberia: Its Struggles and Its Promises by Hilary Teague; What to the Slave is the Fourth of July and On the Unveiling of the Lincoln Monument by Frederick Douglass; Should Colored Men Be Subject to the Pains and Penalties of the Fugitive Slave Law? by Charles H. Langston; Young Men to the Front by Richard T. Greener; The Civil Rights Bill by Robert Browne Elliot; Civil Rights and Social Equality by John R. Lynch; On the Occasion of Taking His Seat in the French Academy by Alexander Dumas, Fils; Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society by John M. Langston; Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; A Memorial Discourse by Henry Highland Garnet; Crispus Attucks by George L. Ruffin; Address During Presidential Campaign of 1880 by P.B.S. Pinchback; The Black Woman of the South by Alexander Crummell; An Open Letter to the Educational League of Georgia by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin; In the Wake of the Coming Ages by James Madison Vance; At the Opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta and Robert Gould Shaw by Booker T. Washington; The Negro as a Soldier by Christian A. Eleetwood; The Limitless Possibilities of the Negro Race by Charles W. Anderson; The Party of Freedom and the Freemen by William Sanders Scarborough; The Teaching of History by Nathan F. Mossell; A Defense of the Negro Race by George H. White; The Negro's Part in the Redemption of Africa by Levi J. Coppin; A Plea for Industrial Opportunity by Fanny Jackson Coppin; An Appeal to Our Brother in White by William J. Gaines; The Political Outlook for Africa by Edward Wilmot Blyden; The Duty and Responsibility of the Anglo-Saxon by W. Justin Carter; The Army as a Trained Force by Theophilus G. Steward; The Sunday-School and Church as a Solution of the Negro Problem by D. Webster Davis; William Lloyd Garrison by Reverdy C. Ransom; Abraham Lincoln by James L. Curtis; Abraham Lincoln and Fifty Years of Freedom by Abraham Walters; On the Presentation of a Loving Cup to Senator Foraker by Archibald H. Grimke; Equality of Rights for All Citizens by Francis H. Grimke; Is the Game Worth the Candle? by James E. Shapard; Some Elements Necessary to Race Development by Roberta Russa Moton; The Two Seals by George William Cook; A Solution of the Race Problem by J. Milton Waldron; The Social Bearings of the Fifth Commandment by J. Francis Gregory; Life's Morn by William C. Jason; Abraham Lincoln by William H. Lewis; David Livingstone by Alice M. Dunbar; Education for Manhood by Keely Miller; On Making a Life by Robert T. Jones; Emancipation and Racial Advancement by Ernest Lyon; The Future of the Negro Church by John C. Dancy; The Negro Lawyer by W. Ashbie Hawkins; The Training of Negroes for Social Reform by W.E.B. Dubois.