The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 2000 M09 5 - 656 páginas The American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that have inspired, enraged, delighted, chastened, and comforted Americans in days gone by. Gathered here are the writings that illuminate -- with wit, eloquence, and sometimes sharp words -- significant aspects of national conciousness. They reflect the part that all Americans -- black and white, native born and immigrant, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, poor and wealthy -- have played in creating the nation's character. |
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... land , where my service could be of any use in assisting to quench the flame of prosecutions upon informations , set on foot by the government to deprive a people of the right of remon- strating , and complaining too , of the arbitrary ...
... land and the deep . The Tree their own hands had to Liberty rear'd ; They liv'd to behold growing strong and rever'd ; With transport they cry'd , " Now our wishes we gain For our children shall gather the fruits of our pain . " Swarms ...
... land . Thus we are deprived of every thing that hath a tendency to make life even tolerable , the endearing ties of husband and wife we are strangers to for we are no longer man and wife than our masters or mistresses thinkes proper ...
... Land which doth not justifi but condemns Slavery or if there had bin aney Law to hold us in Bondage we are Humbely of the Opinion ther never was aney to inslave our children for life when Born in a free Countrey . We therfor Bage your ...
... yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss . Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with these warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land . Are fleets 34 The American Reader.
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