Contents xii
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896) 813
Oldtown Folks 814
Miss Asphyxia 814
HARRIET JACOBS (1813-1897) 821
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 822
VI: The Jealous Mistress 822
XVII: The Flight 826
XVIII: Months of Peril 827
XIX: The Children Sold 832
FREDERICK DOUGIASS (1817?-1895) 833
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 834
Chapter I [Birth] 834
Chapter VII [Learning to Read and Write] 836
Chapter X [Mr. Covey] 839
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891) 846
A Fable for Critics 848
The Biglow Papers, First Series 860
No. 1: A Letter 860
The Biglow Papers, Second Series 865
Introduction 865
The Courtin' 865
An Age of Expansion: 1865-1915 869
NEW VOICES IN POETRY
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) 878
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass 881
Song of Myself 893
CHILDREN OF ADAM
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 930
Once l passed through a Populous City 930
Facing West from California's Shores 931
As Adam Early in the Morning 931
CALAMUS
For You O Democracy 931
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-oak Growing 931
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 932
SEA-DRIFT
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 936
To the Man-of-War-Bird 940