The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 05.09.2000 - 656 Seiten 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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... freedom has existed , been the cause of freedom . If it is this principle that has always prompted the princes and nobles of the earth by every species of fraud and violence to shake off all the limitations of their power , it is the ...
... freedom . In a word , let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a- flowing . JOHN DICKINSON THE LIBERTY SONG " The Liberty Song " was the first patriotic American ballad . It was written in 1768 by John Dickinson ( 1732-1808 ) ...
... Freedom we're born and in Freedom we'll live , Our purses are ready , Steady , Friends , Steady . Not as slaves , but as Freemen our money we'll give . Our worthy Forefathers - Let's give them a cheer To Climates unknown did ...
... freedom . On May 25 , 1774 , a group of slaves in Massachusetts addressed the following appeal to Thomas Gage , the royal governor of the colony . When the revolution began , the American army excluded blacks . But when the British ...
... the protection of divine Providence , we mutually pledge to each other our Lives , our Fortunes and our sacred Honor . THOMAS JEFFERSON A BILL FOR ESTABLISHING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN VIRGINIA Colonial Days and the Revolution 41.
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