Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove

Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION


CHAPTER 1: COLUMBUS AND LAS CASAS

The Diario of Christopher Columbus (October 11–15, 1492)

Bartolomé de Las Casas, Two Readings on the Legacy of Columbus (1542 and 1550)

Bartolomé de Las Casas, The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account (1542)

Bartolomé de Las Casas, In Defense of the Indians (1550)

Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire (1982)


CHAPTER 2: THE FIRST SLAVES

Three Documents on Slave Revolts (1720 to 1793)

Anonymous Letter to Mr. Boone in London (June 24, 1720)

Letter from Petersburg, Virginia (May 17, 1792)

Secret Keeper Richmond (Unknown) to Secret Keeper Norfolk (Unknown) (1793)

Four Petitions Against Slavery (1773 to 1777)

“Felix” (Unknown) Slave Petition for Freedom (January 6, 1773)

Peter Bestes and Other Slaves Petition for Freedom (April 20, 1773)

“Petition of a Grate Number of Blackes” to Thomas Gage (May 25, 1774)

“Petition of a Great Number of Negroes” to the Massachusetts House of Representatives (January 13, 1777)

Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (August 19, 1791)


CHAPTER 3: SERVITUDE AND REBELLION

Richard Frethorne on Indentured Servitude (March 20–April 3, 1623)

A True Narrative of the Rise, Progresse, and Cessation of the Late Rebellion in Virginia, Most Humbly and Impartially Reported by His Majestyes Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Affaires of the Said Colony (1677)

Proclamation of the New Hampshire Legislature on the Mast Tree Riot (1734)

Letter Written by William Shirley to the Lords of Trade about the Knowles Riot (December 1, 1747)

Gottlieb Mittelberger, Gottlieb Mittelberger’s Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750 and Return to Germany In the Year 1754 (1754)

Account of the New York Tenant Riots (July 14, 1766)


CHAPTER 4: PREPARING THE REVOLUTION

Thomas Hutchinson Recounts the Reaction to the Stamp Act in Boston (1765)

Samuel Drowne’s Testimony on the Boston Massacre (March 16, 1770)

George Hewes Recalls the Boston Tea Party (1834)

New York Mechanics Declaration of Independence (May 29, 1776)

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)


CHAPTER 5: HALF A REVOLUTION

Joseph Clarke’s Letter about the Rebellion in Springfield (August 30, 1774)

Joseph Plumb Martin, A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier (1830)

Samuel Dewees Recounts the Suppression of Insubordination in the Continental Army after the Mutinies of 1781 (1844)

Henry Knox, Letter to George Washington (October 23, 1786)

“Publius” (James Madison), Federalist No. 10 (November 23, 1787)


CHAPTER 6: THE EARLY WOMEN’S MOVEMENT

Maria Stewart, “An Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston” (February 27, 1833)

Angelina Grimké Weld’s Speech at Pennsylvania Hall (May 17, 1838)

Harriet Hanson Robinson, “Characteristics of the Early Factory Girls” (1898)

S. Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions,” Seneca Falls Convention (July 19, 1848)

Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?” (1851

Marriage Protest of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell (May 1, 1855)

Susan B. Anthony Addresses Judge Ward Hunt in The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony (June 19, 1873)


CHAPTER 7: INDIAN REMOVAL

Tecumseh’s Speech to the Osages (Winter 1811–12)

Two Documents on the Cherokee Removal (1829 and 1830)

Cherokee Nation, “Memorial of the Cherokee Indians” (December 1829)

Lewis Ross et al., Address of the Committee and Council of the Cherokee Nation, in General Council Convened, to the People of the United States (July 17, 1830)

Black Hawk’s Surrender Speech (1832)

John G. Burnett, “The Cherokee Removal Through the Eyes of a Private Soldier” (December 11, 1890)

Two Statements by Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé (1877 and 1879)

Chief Joseph’s Surrender (October 5, 1877)

Chief Joseph Recounts His Trip to Washington, D.C. (1879)

Black Elk, “The End of the Dream” (1932)


CHAPTER 8: THE WAR ON MEXICO

The Diary of Colonel Ethan Allen Hitchcock (June 30, 1845–March 26, 1846)

Miguel Barragan, Dispatch on Texas Colonists (October 31, 1835)

Juan Soto, Desertion Handbill (June 6, 1847)

Frederick Douglass, Address to the New England Convention (May 31, 1849)

North Star Editorial, “The War with Mexico” (January 21, 1848)

Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849)


CHAPTER 9: SLAVERY AND DEFIANCE

David Walker’s Appeal (1830)

Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself (1861)

James Norcom’s Runaway Slave Newspaper Advertisement for Harriet Jacobs (June 30, 1835)

James R. Bradley, Letter to Lydia Maria Child (June 3, 1834)

Reverend Theodore Parker, Speech of Theodore Parker at the Faneuil Hall Meeting (May 26, 1854)

Two Letters from Slaves to Their Former Masters (1844 to 1860)

Henry Bibb, Letter to William Gatewood (March 23, 1844)

Jermain Wesley Loguen, Letter to Sarah Logue (March 28, 1860)

Frederick Douglass, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (July 5, 1852)

John Brown, “John Brown’s Last Speech” (November 2, 1859)

Osborne P. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry (1861)

Martin Delany’s Advice to Former Slaves (July 23, 1865)

Henry McNeal Turner, “On the Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats in the Georgia Legislature” (September 3, 1868)


CHAPTER 10: CIVIL WAR AND CLASS CONFLICT

An Eyewitness Account of the Flour Riot in New York (February 1837)

Hinton Rowan Helper, The Impending Crisis of the South (1857)

“Mechanic” (Unknown), “Voting by Classes” (October 13, 1863)

Joel Tyler Headley, The Great Riots of New York (1873)

Four Documents on Disaffection in the South During the Civil War (1864 to 1865)

Report on a Bread Riot in Savannah, Georgia (April 1864)

“Exempt” (Unknown), “To Go, Or Not to Go” (June 28, 1864)

O.G.G. (Unknown), Letter to the Editor (February 17, 1865)

Columbus Sun, “The Class That Suffer” (February 17, 1865)

J. A. Dacus, Annals of the Great Strikes in the United States (1877)


CHAPTER 11: STRIKERS AND POPULISTS IN THE GILDED AGE

Henry George, “The Crime of Poverty” (April 1, 1885)

August Spies, “Address of August Spies” (October 7, 1886)

Anonymous, “Red-Handed Murder: Negroes Wantonly Killed at Thibodaux, La.” (November 26, 1887)

Reverend Ernest Lyon et al., Open Letter from the New Orleans Mass Meeting (August 22, 1888)

Two Speeches by Mary Elizabeth Lease (circa 1890)

“Wall Street Owns the Country” (circa 1890)

Speech to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (1890)

The Omaha Platform of the People’s Party of America (1892)

Reverend J. L. Moore on the Colored Farmers’ Alliance (March 7, 1891)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law” (1893)

Statement from the Pullman Strikers (June 15, 1894)

Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888)


CHAPTER 12: THE EXPANSION OF THE EMPIRE

Calixto Garcia’s Letter to General William R. Shafter (July 17, 1898)

Three Documents on African-American Opposition to Empire (1898 to 1899)

Lewis H. Douglass on Black Opposition to McKinley (November 17, 1899

Missionary Department of the Atlanta, Georgia, A.M.E. Church, “The Negro Should Not Enter the Army” (May 1, 1899)

I. D. Barnett et al., Open Letter to President McKinley by Colored People of Massachusetts (October 3, 1899)

Samuel Clemens, “Comments on the Moro Massacre” (March 12, 1906)

Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket (1935)


CHAPTER 13: SOCIALISTS AND WOBBLIES

Mother Jones, “Agitation: The Greatest Factor for Progress” (March 24, 1903)

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)

W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

Emma Goldman, “Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty” (1908)

“Proclamation of the Striking Textile Workers of Lawrence” (1912)

Arturo Giovannitti’s Address to the Jury (November 23, 1912)

Woody Guthrie, “Ludlow Massacre” (1946)

Julia May Courtney, “Remember Ludlow!” (May 1914)

Joe Hill, “My Last Will” (November 18, 1915)


CHAPTER 14: PROTESTING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Helen Keller, “Strike Against War” (January 5, 1916)

John Reed, “Whose War?” (April 1917)

“Why the IWW Is Not Patriotic to the United States” (1918)

Emma Goldman, Address to the Jury in U.S. v. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman (July 9, 1917)

Two Antiwar Speeches by Eugene Debs (1918)

“The Canton, Ohio, Speech” (June 16, 1918)

Statement to the Court (September 18, 1918)

Randolph Bourne, “The State” (1918)

e. e. cummings, “i sing of Olaf glad and big” (1931)

John Dos Passos, “The Body of an American” (1932)

Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun (1939)


CHAPTER 15: FROM THE JAZZ AGE TO THE
UPRISINGS OF THE 1930S

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Echoes of the Jazz Age” (1931)

Yip Harburg, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (1932)

Paul Y. Anderson, “Tear-Gas, Bayonets, and Votes” (August 17, 1932)

Mary Licht, “I Remember the Scottsboro Defense” (February 15, 1997)

Ned Cobb (“Nate Shaw”), All God’s Dangers (1969)

Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit” (1937)

Two Poems by Langston Hughes (1934 and...