greykit.essays — #slavery
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1865-03-04
[american-civic]
Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln's somber second inaugural, weighing the war as divine judgment on slavery — "With malice toward none, with charity for all.
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1854
[american-civic]
Slavery in Massachusetts
Thoreau's furious response to the Fugitive Slave Law and Massachusetts's complicity in returning a man to bondage.
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1852-07-05
[american-civic]
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Douglass's searing Independence Day address — "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine" — indicting a republic that celebrated liberty while holding millions in bondage.
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1849
[american-civic]
Civil Disobedience
Thoreau's argument that the individual must not lend himself to the injustice he condemns — the founding text of civil disobedience.
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1845
[american-civic]
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Douglass's account of his life in slavery and his escape to freedom — the most influential of the American slave narratives.
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1795-02-07
[american-founding]
Amendments XI–XXVII to the Constitution
The seventeen amendments after the Bill of Rights — from the Eleventh (1795) through the Twenty-seventh (1992).
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1787-07-13
[american-founding]
The Northwest Ordinance
The charter for the Northwest Territory — guaranteeing rights, mandating public education, and forbidding slavery north of the Ohio.