X. A perilous passage in the slave girl's life 867
XVII. The flight 871
XXI. The loophole of retreat 873
XLI. Free at last 876
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) 883
Walking 885
Civil Disobedience 910
Life without principle 928
Frederick Douglass (1818 - 1895) 945
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by Himself 948
What to the slave is the fourth of July? 1023
GALLERY: Slavery and Abolition
John Woolman (1720-1772), From Considerations on the keeping of Negroes 1048
Peter Osborne (fl. 1832), Address 1051
William Lloyd Garrison (1805-79), To the Public 1052
Plantation in 1838-39 1055
Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882), From An Address to the slaves of the United States of America 1059
Herman Melville (1819-1991) 1062
Bartleby, the scrivener: A story of Wall Street 1064
CONTEXT AND RESPONSE: Orestes Brownson, From The Laboring Classes 1094
Walt Whitman (1819-1992) 1097
Song of Myself 1100
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 1150
When I heard at the close of the day 1155
I saw in Louisiana a Live-oak growing 1156
Vigil strange I kept on the field one night 1156
A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim 1157
The wound-dresser 1158
Reconciliation 1160
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd 1160
From Democratic vistas 1168
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) 1176
The slave mother 1178
Eliza Harris 1179
The slave auction 1181