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Title: Transatlantic rhetoric: speeches from the American Revolution to the suffragettes
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Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Illustrations
  • 1 Nationalisms andIndependence
    • Part A: Debating American Freedom
      • 1. Joseph Galloway, ‘A Plan to Avoid War’ (Philadelphia, 1774)
      • 2. Edmund Burke, ‘On Conciliation with the Colonies’ (London, 1775)
      • 3. Patrick Henry, ‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death’ (Richmond,Virginia, 1775)
      • 4. Buckongahelas, ‘You See a Great and Powerful Nation Divided!’ (Delaware, 1781)
    • Part B: Declaring Independence
      • 5. Thomas Jefferson et al., ‘The Unanimous Declaration of the United States of America’ (Philadelphia, 1776)
      • 6. Robert Emmet, ‘Speech from the Dock’ (Dublin, 1803)
      • 7. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, ‘The Haitian Declaration of Independence’ (Gonaïves, Saint-Domingue, 1804)
      • 8. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, ‘The Cry of Dolores’ (‘El Grito de Dolores’) (Dolores, Mexico, 1810)
    • Part C: Pan- and Transnationalisms
      • 9. Tecumseh, ‘Sleep No Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws’ (Mississippi, 1811)
      • 10. José Martí, ‘Our America’ (New York City, 1889)
      • 11. W. E. B. Du Bois, ‘To the Nations of the World’ (London, 1900)
  • 2 Gender, Suff rage and Sexuality
    • Part A: Gender Equality
      • 1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, ‘Keynote Address at Seneca Falls Convention’ (Seneca Falls, New York, 1848)
      • 2. Sojourner Truth, ‘Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention’ (Akron, Ohio, 1851)
      • 3. Sojourner Truth, ‘Address to the American Equal Rights Association’ (New York City, 1867)
      • 4. Josephine Butler, ‘Speech on Sex Workers’ Rights’ (Wigan, 1870)
    • Part B: Suff rage for Women
      • 5. Susan B. Anthony, ‘Is It a Crime for a US Citizen to Vote?’ (Rochester, New York, 1873)
      • 6. Sir Henry James and W. E. Forster, ‘The Anti-Suffrage Case’ (London, 1879)
      • 7. Emmeline Pankhurst, ‘Freedom or Death’ (Hartford, Connecticut, 1913)
    • Part C: Sexuality and Reproduction
      • 8. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, ‘Enlightened Motherhood’ (Brooklyn, 1892)
      • 9. Oscar Wilde, ‘Testimony at Indecency Trial’ (London, 1895)
      • 10. Anna Rüling, ‘The Women’s Movement and the Homosexual Problem’ (Berlin, 1904)
      • 11. Theodore Roosevelt, ‘On American Motherhood’ (Washington, DC, 1905)
  • 3 Slavery and Race
    • Part A: Debating Slavery
      • 1. James Penny, ‘Testimony in Defence of a Humane Slave Trade’ (London, 1788)
      • 2. William Wilberforce, ‘Resolutions Respecting the Slave Trade’ (London, 1789)
      • 3. Absalom Jones, ‘A Thanksgiving Sermon’ (Philadelphia, 1808)
      • 4. John Calhoun, ‘Slavery, A Positive Good’ (Washington, DC, 1837)
      • 5. Angelina Grimké, ‘Speech at Pennsylvania Hall’ (Philadelphia, 1838)
      • 6. Frederick Douglass, ‘What to the Slave is July 4th?’ (Rochester, New York, 1852)
      • 7. Henry Ward Beecher, ‘Peace, Be Still’ Sermon (Brooklyn, 1861)
    • Part B: Race and Civil Rights
      • 8. David Walker, ‘The Necessity of a General Union Among Us’ (Boston, 1828)
      • 9. Robert Knox, ‘Lecture on the Races of Men’ (Manchester, 1848)
      • 10. Ida B. Wells, ‘Lynch Law in All Its Phases’ (Boston, 1893)
      • 11. Alexander Crummell, ‘The American Mind and Black Intellect’ (Washington, DC, 1898)
  • 4 Faith, Culture and Society
    • Part A: The Role of Faith
      • 1. Jarena Lee, ‘My Call to Preach the Gospel’ (Maryland, c.1810s)
      • 2. Charles Spurgeon, ‘Compel Them to Come In’ (London, 1858)
      • 3. Robert Ingersoll, ‘The Gods’ (Fairbury, Illinois, 1873)
      • 4. Swami Vivekananda, ‘Address at the World’s Parliament of Religions’ (Chicago, 1893)
    • Part B: Culture and Morality
      • 5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Ethics’ (Boston, 1837)
      • 6. John Ruskin, ‘Traffi c’ (Bradford, 1864)
      • 7. Oscar Wilde, ‘Art of the English Renaissance’ (New York City, 1882)
      • 8. William Morris, ‘Art and Socialism’ (Leicester, 1884)
    • Part C: Society and Class
      • 9. Henry ‘Orator’ Hunt, ‘Speech at Spa Fields’ (London, 1816)
      • 10. Benjamin Disraeli, ‘In Defence of the Feudal System’ (Shrewsbury, 1843)
      • 11. Peter H. Clark, ‘Socialism: The Remedy for the Evils of Society’ (Cincinnati, 1877)
      • 12. Lucy Parsons, ‘I am an Anarchist’ (Kansas City, 1886)
      • 13. William Jennings Bryan, ‘The Cross of Gold Speech’ (Chicago, 1896)
  • 5 Empire and Manifest Destiny
    • Part A: Opposing Empire
      • 1. Nanye’hi et al., ‘Cherokee Women Address Their Nation’ (Georgia, 1817)
      • 2. Francisco Mejía, ‘Proclamation Against American Usurpation’ (Matamoros, 1846)
      • 3. John Calhoun, ‘Mexican Annexation and the “White Race”’ (Washington, DC, 1848)
      • 4. John Bright, ‘Opposition to India Policy’ (London, 1858)
      • 5. William Jennings Bryan, ‘Imperialism’ (Kansas City, 1900)
    • Part B: Defending Empire
      • 6. Benjamin Disraeli, ‘The Maintenance of Empire’ (London, 1872)
      • 7. Theodore Roosevelt, ‘The Strenuous Life’ (Chicago, 1899)
      • 8. Albert J. Beveridge, ‘The Philippines Are Ours Forever’ (Washington, DC, 1900)
    • Part C: The Irish Question
      • 9. Daniel O’Connell, ‘Ireland Shall be Free’ (Mullaghmast, Ireland, 1843)
      • 10. Lewis C. Levin, ‘The Papist Threat’ (Philadelphia, 1844)
      • 11. William E. Gladstone, ‘Government of Ireland Bill’ (London, 1886)
    • Part D: Indigenous Rights
      • 12. Andrew Jackson, ‘Speech to Congress on Indian Removal’ (Washington, DC, 1830)
      • 13. William Apess, ‘Eulogy for King Philip’ (Boston, 1836)
      • 14. Mark Twain, ‘Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands’ (San Francisco, 1868)
      • 15. Dadabhai Naoroji, ‘Maiden Speech in Parliament’ (London, 1893)
  • 6 War and Peace
    • Part A: America’s Path to Disunion
      • 1. Daniel Webster, ‘Second Reply to Hayne’ (Washington, DC, 1830)
      • 2. Abraham Lincoln, ‘The Lyceum Address’ (Springfi eld, Illinois, 1838)
      • 3. Charles Sumner, ‘The Crime Against Kansas’ (Washington, DC, 1856)
      • 4. Abraham Lincoln, ‘A House Divided’ (Springfi eld, Illinois, 1858)
    • Part B: The Meaning of the American Civil War
      • 5. Alexander Stephens, ‘The Cornerstone Speech’ (Savannah,Georgia, 1861)
      • 6. William E. Gladstone, ‘The South Has Made a Nation’ (Newcastle, 1862)
      • 7. Abraham Lincoln, ‘The Gettysburg Address’ (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863)
      • 8. Frederick Douglass, ‘The Mission of the War’ (New York City, 1864)
    • Part C: Pacifi sms and Non-Violence
      • 9. Hannah Mather Crocker, ‘Fast Sermon Against the War’ (Boston, 1812)
      • 10. Henry David Thoreau, ‘Resistance to Civil Government’ (Concord, Massachusetts, 1848)
      • 11. John Bright, ‘Angel of Death Speech’ (London, 1855)
      • 12. Emma Goldman, ‘Patriotism, a Menace to Liberty’ (San Francisco, 1908)
  • Further Reading
  • Index

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