photo of Frederick Douglass

MASTERPIECES OF
NEGRO ELOQUENCE

THE BEST SPEECHES DELIVERED BY THE NEGRO FROM THE DAYS OF SLAVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME

EDITED BY

ALICE MOORE DUNBAR

Copyright, 1914,
by
Robert John Nelson

Printed in the United States of America


TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE NEGRO RACE, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED, WITHTHE HOPE THAT IT MAY HELP INSPIRE THEM WITH A BELIEF IN THEIR OWNPOSSIBILITIES


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface 
Prince Saunders
   The People of Hayti and a Plan of Emigration
13
James McCune Smith
   Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haytian Revolution
19
Hilary Teague
   Liberia: Its Struggles and Its Promises
33
Frederick Douglass
   What to the Slave is the Fourth of July
41
   On the Unveiling of the Lincoln Monument133
Charles H. Langston
   Should Colored Men be Subject to the Pains and Penaltiesof the Fugitive Slave Law?
49
Richard T. Greener
   Young Men to the Front
63
Robert Browne Elliot
   The Civil Rights Bill
67
John R. Lynch
   Civil Rights and Social Equality
89
Alexander Dumas, Fils
   On the Occasion of Taking His Seat in the FrenchAcademy
95
John M. Langston
   Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society
97
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
   Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society
101
Henry Highland Garnet
   A Memorial Discourse
107
George L. Ruffin
   Crispus Attucks
125
P. B.
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