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A Brief History of Eric the Red
A Brief History of the Greenlanders
From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624), from The Second Book
From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624), from The Third Book
From A Description of New England (1616)
From Of Plimouth Plantation (1630-1650), From BOOK ONE, CHAPTER 1
From Of Plimouth Plantation (1630-1650), From BOOK ONE, CHAPTER 4 (Showing the Reasons and Causes of their Removal)
From Of Plimouth Plantation (1630-1650), From BOOK ONE, CHAPTER 7 (Of Their Departure From Leyden, And Other Things Thereabout, With the Arrival in Southampton, Where They All Met Together, And Took In Their Provision)
From Of Plimouth Plantation (1630-1650), From BOOK ONE, CHAPTER 9 (Of Their Voyage, And How They Passed The Sea, And Of Their Safe Arrival At Cape Cod)
From Of Plimouth Plantation (1630-1650), From BOOK ONE, CHAPTER 10 (Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation, And What Befell Them Thereabout)
From Of Plimouth Plantation (1630-1650), From BOOK TWO, CHAPTER 11 (The Remainder of Anno 1620)
From Of Plimouth Plantation (1630-1650), From BOOK TWO, CHAPTER 12 (1621 - The First Thanksgiving)
From Of Plimouth Plantation (1630-1650), From BOOK TWO, CHAPTER 19 (1628 - Merrymount)
From Of Plimouth Plantation (1630-1650), From BOOK TWO, CHAPTER 23 (1632 - Prosperity Leads to Weakness)
From Of Plimouth Plantation (1630-1650), From BOOK TWO, CHAPTER 25 (1634 - Problems Westward)
From Of Plimouth Plantation (1630-1650), From BOOK TWO, CHAPTER 27 (1636 - Tensions with the Pequots)
From Of Plimouth Plantation (1630-1650), From BOOK TWO, CHAPTER 28 (1634 - The Pequot War)
From Of Plimouth Plantation (1630-1650), From BOOK TWO, CHAPTER 32 (1642 - Trouble with the Next Generation)
From Of Plimouth Plantation (1630-1650), From BOOK TWO, CHAPTER 34 (1644 - Considering a Move to Nauset)
A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old (1665)
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet, Who Deceased June 20, 1669, Being Three Years and Seven Months Old (1678)
On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, Being But a Month, and One Day Old (1678)
The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminet, Held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692
A Notable Exploit; Dux Faemina Facti (1697)
The Copy of a Valedictory and Monitory Writing (1681)
From The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York (1704-1705)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1823)
Speech at Detroit (c. 1763)
From A Short Narrative of My Life (1768)
"A Political Reverie" (1774)
The Squabble of the Sea Nymphs, or the Sacrifice of the Tuscaroroes (1774)
From Common Sense (1776)
Draft of The Declaration of Independence (1776)
An Elegy to the Memory of the American Volunteers Who Fell in the Engagement between the Massachusetts-Bay Militia, and the British Troops, April 19, 1775
Abigail Adams to John Adams, Braintree August 19 1774
John Adams to Abigail Adams, Phyladelphia Septr. 16, 1774
John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 23 1775
John Adams to Abigail Adams, Octr. 29, 1775
Abigail Adams to John Adams, November 27 1775
John Adams to Abigail Adams, Philadelphia July 3. 1776
Abigail Adams to John Adams, Boston, July 13-14, 1776
John Adams to Abigail Adams, Philadelphia July 20. 1776
Abigail Adams to John Adams, July 21-22, 1776 Boston
“The Way to Wealth”: Preface to Poor Richard Improved (1758)
“Information to Those Who Would Remove to America” (1782)
From Letters from an American Farmer (1782), From “Letter III: What is an American”
From Letters from an American Farmer (1782), Letter IX: Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; on Physical Evil; A Meloncholy Scene
From Letters from an American Farmer (1782), Letter XII: Distresses of a Frontier Man
From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789), From Chapter I
From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789), From Chapter II
From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789), From Chapter III
From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789), From Chapter IV
From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789), From Chapter V
From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789), From Chapter VI
From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789), From Chapter VII
On being brought from Africa to America (1773)
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c. (1773)
To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works (1773)
To His Excellency, General Washington (1775)
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York
Liberty Further Extended (1776)
A Short Narration of My Last Journey to the Western Contry (1794)
Rip Van Winkle (1819) from The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) from The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
From The Pioneers (1823), Chapter 21
From The Pioneers (1823), Chapter 22
From Last of the Mohicans (1826), Chapter 3
Nature (1836)
The American Scholar (1838)
Self-Reliance (1847)
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1843)
From Walden; or Life in the Woods (1854), Chapter 2: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
From Walden; or Life in the Woods (1854), Chapter 11: Higher Laws
From Walden; or Life in the Woods (1854), Chapter 17: Spring
The Minister’s Black Veil (1837) from Twice-Told Tales
The May-Pole of Merry Mount (1837) from Twice-Told Tales
The Artist of the Beautiful (1844)
From The Blithedale Romance (1852), Chapter II: Blithedale
From The Blithedale Romance (1852), Chapter III: A Knot of Dreamers
From The Blithedale Romance (1852), Chapter VIII: A Modern Arcadia
From The Blithedale Romance (1852), Chapter XV: A Crisis
From The Blithedale Romance (1852), Chapter XVI: Leave-Takings
“The Black Cat” (1845)
“The Purloined Letter” (1845)
“Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” (1856)
“Benito Cereno” (1855)
An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man (1833)
from A New Home--Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life (1839) -- Prefaces
from A New Home--Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life (1839) -- Chapter I
from A New Home--Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life (1839) -- Chapter III
from A New Home--Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life (1839) -- Chapter XV
from A New Home--Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life (1839) -- Chapter XVII
from A New Home--Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life (1839) -- Chapter XXVII
from A New Home--Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life (1839) -- Chapter XLIII
from A New Home--Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life (1839) -- Chapter XLVII
Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume 1: Chapter I: In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Chapter II: The Mother
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Chapter III: The Husband and Father
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Chapter VII: The Mother’s Struggle
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Chapter IX: In Which it Appears that a Senator is but a Man
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Chapter XII: Select Incident of Lawful Trade
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Chapter XIII: The Quaker Settlement
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Chapter XIV: Evangeline
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Chapter XX: Topsy
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Chapter XXX: The Slave Warehouse
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Chapter XXXI: The Middle Passage
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Chapter XXXIV: The Quadroon's Story
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Chapter XL: The Martyr
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Preface by William Lloyd Garrison
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Letter by Wendell Phillips, Esq.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Chapter 1
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Chapter II
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Chapter III
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Chapter IV
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Chapter V
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Chapter VI
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Chapter VII
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Chapter VIII:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Chapter IX:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Chapter X
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Chapter XI
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave (1845), Appendix
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” (1852)
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) -- Chapter 1: "Childhood"
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) -- Chapter 2 "The New Master and Mistress"
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) -- Chapter 4 "The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man"
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) -- Chapter 6 "The Jealous Mistress"
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) -- Chapter 7 "The Lover"
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) -- Chapter 10 "A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life"
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) -- Chapter 16 "Scenes at the Plantation"
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) -- Chapter 21 "The Loophole of Retreat"
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) - Chapter 36 - "The Hairbreadth Escape"
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) -- Chapter 40 "The Fugitive Slave Law"
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) -- Chapter 41 "Free at Last"
Women's Rights Convention Speech (1851)
Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association (1867)
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (1856)
“When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom’d” (1865)
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