Antebellum America (1789-1860)

Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America, Volume II, Part A

1840

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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America, Volume II, Part B

1840

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self Reliance

1841

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Henry Highland Garnet’s ‘Call to Rebellion’

1843

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Dorothea Dix: Memorial to the Massachusetts Legislature

1843

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Peter Wilson (Waowawanaonk) on The Empire State

May 4, 1847

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Horace Mann: Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board

1848

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Seneca Falls Declaration

1848

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

February 2, 1848

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Keynote Address at Seneca Falls

July 19, 1848

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Henry David Thoreau: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

1849

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Henry Clay: Compromise of 1850

1850

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Levi Coffin: The Underground Railroad

1850

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John C. Calhoun: The Clay Compromise Measures

March 4, 1850

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Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

July 5, 1852

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854

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Abraham Lincoln: Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise at Peoria, Illinois

October 16, 1854

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Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act

1855

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

1857

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Abraham Lincoln: ‘House Divided’ Speech

June 16, 1858

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Frank Lloyd Garrison: The Death of John Brown

1859

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John Brown’s Speech to the Court at his Trial

November 2, 1859

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Captain R. M. Potter: The Fall of the Alamo

1860

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

1860

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Abraham Lincoln: Address at Cooper Institute, New York City

February 27, 1860

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Frederick Douglas: A Plea for Free Speech in Boston

December 10, 1860

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James Madison’s Proclamation - Humiliation and Prayer

July 9, 1812

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Thomas Jefferson’s Decalogue of Canons

February 21, 1825

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