HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) 950
Resistance to civil government 953
Walden, or life in the woods 970
Slavery in Massachusetts 1144
From A plea for Captain John Brown 1155
FREDERIC DOUGLASS (1818-1895) 1159
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by himself 1163
My bondage and My freedom 1229
Chapter XVII. The last flogging 1229
What to the slave is the fourth of July? 1236
The Heroic Slave 1239
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PRE-CIVIL WAR NATION 1268
JACOB BIGELOW: From elements of technology 1269
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS: From the pencil of nature. A new Discovery 1272
CHARLES DICKENS: From American Notes for General circulation 1274
HARRIET FARLEY: From Suicide 1277
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: From American Note-Books 1281
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT: From Cosmos 1282
EDGAR ALLAN POE: From Eureka: A prose poem 1285
JOSIAH C. NOTT AND GEORGE R. GLIDDON: From Types of Mankind 1289
FREDERICK DOUGLASS: From the claims of the negro, Ethnologically considered 1291
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) 1294
Preface to Leaves of Grass 1297
Inscriptions 1312
One's-self I sing 1312
Shut not your doors 1312
Song of myself 1312
Children of Adam 1357
From Pent-up aching rivers 1357
A woman waits for me 1358
Spontaneous Me 1360
Once I pass;d through a populous city 1361
Facing west from California's shores 1361
Calamus 1362
Whoever you are holding me now in hand 1362
Trickle drops 1363
Here the Frailest Leaves of me 1363
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 1364