The Struggle for an Education

Booker T. Washington

1901

The Address of Southern Delegates in Congress to their Constituents; or, the address of John C. Calhoun and Forty Other Thieves

Frederick Douglass

1849

The Last Flogging

1855

National Disfranchisement of Colored People

Martin R. Delany

1852

The Future of the Colored Race

Frederick Douglass

1886

Speech on the Mexican-American War

Henry Clay

1847

The Constitution and the Union

Daniel Webster

1850

Order of Retaliation

Abraham Lincoln

1863

Proclamation Revoking General Hunter’s Emancipation Order

Abraham Lincoln

1862

Speech at Chicago, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln

1858