The Scarlet Letter 592
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) 779
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport 780
My Lost Youth 783
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) 786
To Helen 788
The Raven 789
Annabel Lee 792
The Fall of the House of Usher 793
The Tell-Tale Heart 809
The Purloined Letter 814
The Philosophy of Composition 830
Letter to the Reader: Slavery in America 845
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 858
Address Delivered at tbe Dedication of tbe Cemetery at
Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 860
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 861
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) 863
From The Great Lawsuit 865
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) 870
From Uncle Tom's Cabin 872
XL. Tbe Matyr 872
XLI. The Young Master 878
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) 885
From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written
by Herself 887
I. Childhood 889
II. The New Master and Mistress 892
III. The Slaves' New Year's Day 897
V. The Trials of Girlhood 898
VI. The Jealous Mistress 901
VII. The Lover 907
VIII. What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the
North 912
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