# Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence

"This collection of speeches by prominent African-American leaders focuses on issues defining the black experience in the 19th and early 20th centuries. 51 selections focus on slavery, emigration to Africa, abolition, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow segregation."
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MASTERPIECES OF NEGRO ELOQUENCE
THE BEST SPEECHES DELIVERED BY THE NEGRO FROM THE DAYS OF SLAVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME
EDITED BY ALICE MOORE DUNBAR
Copyright, 1914, by Robert John Nelson
Printed in the United States of America
TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE NEGRO RACE, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED, WITH THE HOPE THAT IT MAY HELP INSPIRE THEM WITH A BELIEF IN THEIR OWN POSSIBILITIES

## Table of Contents

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