Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Michelle D. Commander -- SLAVE REBELLION AND INSURRECTION. David Horsmanden, from The New-York Conspiracy; or, A History of the Negro Plot with the Journal of the Proceedings Against the Conspirators at New York in the years 1741-2 (1810) -- From Negro Plot: An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection Among a Portion of the Blacks of the City (1822) -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson, from Nat Turner's insurrection (1861) -- Osborne P. Anderson, from A Voice from harper's Ferry (1861) -- BLACK ABOLITIONIST VOICES. David Walker, from Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America (1829) -- Sarah Mapps Douglass, "Anti-Slavery Speech Before the Female Literary Society of Philadelphia," The Liberator (1832) -- Maria Stewart, from Productions of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart Presented to the First African Baptist Church & Society, of the City of Boston (1835) -- James Forten Jr., "An Address Delivered Before the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia, on the Evening of the 14th of April, 1836" -- Lucy Staunton, "A Plea for the Oppressed (1850) --Mary Ann Shadd Cary, from A Plea for Emigration; or, Notes of Canada West (1852) -- Martin Robinson Delany, from The Condition, Elevation Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, Politically Considered (1852) -- James W. C. Pennington, from The Reasonableness of the Abolition of Slavery at the South, a Legitimate Inference from the Success of British Emancipation. An Address, Delivered at Hartford, Connecticut, on the First of August, 1856 -- Selections from the Anglo-African Magazine (Jan 1860) -- H. Ford Douglas, "I Do Not Believe in the Antislavery of Abraham Lincoln," The Liberator (1860) --

NARRATIVES OF SLAVERY AND FUGITIVE ESCAPES: James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, from A narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself (1772) -- Henry Brown, from Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery, Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Feed Wide (1849) -- Benjamin Drew, from A North-Side View of Slavery, The Refugee; or, The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, Related by Themselves (1856) -- Thomas H. Jones, from Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave. Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (c. 1850s) -- Eliza Potter, from A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life *1859) -- Charles Ball, from Fifty Years in Chains; or, The Life of an American Slave (1860) -- William Craft, from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (1860) -- Hiram Mattison, from Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon; or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (1861) -- Harper Twelvetrees, from The Story of the Life of John Anderson, The Fugitive Slave (1863) -- Elizabeth Keckley, from Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (1868) -- William Still, Selections from The Underground Railroad (1872) -- Jacob Stroyer, from My Life in the South (1885) -- Bethany Veney, from The Narrative of Bethany Veney, a Slave Woman (1889) -- Octavia V. Rogers Albert, from The House of Bondage; or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves (1891) -- Henry Clay Bruce, from The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man (1895) --

ANTISLAVERY POETICS, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, AND DRAMA: Poetry and Music. Jupiter Mammon, "An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York" (1787); An Evening's Improvement, Shewing the Necessity of Beholding the Lamb of God. To Which is Added a Dialogue Entitled: The Kind Master and Dutiful Servant" (1790); and "An Essay on Slavery, with Justification to Divine Providence, That God Rules over All Things" (1786) -- George Horton, "On Liberty and Slavery" in Poems by a Slave (1837) -- John Greenleaf Whittier, selections from Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, Between the Years 1830 and 1838 (1837) -- Edwin F. Hatfield, selections from Freedom's Lyre; or, Psalms, Hymns, and Sacred Sons for the Slave and His Friends (1840) -- William Wells Brown, selections from The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings (1849) -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, selections from Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1857) -- Children's Literature. From The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1837s "Children's Department (1837) -- Eliza Lee Follen, from The Liberty Cap (1846) -- Hannah Townsend and Mary Townsend, from The Anti-Slavery Alphabet (1847) -- Jane Elizabeth Jones, from The Young Abolitionists; or, Conversations on Slavery (1848) -- Kate Barclay, from Minnie May; with Other Rhymes and Stories (1856) -- Anonymous, Julia Colman, and Matilda G. Thompson, from The Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing a Few Words About American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life (1859) -- (Mrs.) J. D. Chaplin, from Cain and Patsy; the Gospel Preached to the Poor. A Story of Slave Life (1860) -- Oliver Optic, from Watch and Wait; or, The Young Fugitives, a Story for Young People (1864) -- William Wells Brown, from The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom (1858) -- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, from Peculiar Sam; or, The Underground Railroad (1878) -- THE DAWN OF FREEDOM: Frederick Douglass, from "The Mission of the War" (1864) -- Charlotte Forten, from Life on the Sea Islands (1864) -- Susie King Taylor, from Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (1902) -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, "We Are All Bound UP Together" (1866) Henry McNeal Turner, "I Claim the Rights of a Man: (1868) -- Congressman Richard Harvey Cain, from "All We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights" (1874) -- Lucy E. Parsons, "I Am an Anarchist" (1886) -- Lost Friends Advertisements from the Southwestern Christian Advocate (18802-1890s) -- Bibliography.