Slavery: A Broadview Anthology of American Literature Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for literature courses with a focus on slavery and/or abolition. If you are teaching a course in these areas, we invite you to pick and choose among the available readings to assemble a custom text that suits your course needs.
Please note: This list is meant to provide options for instructors assembling custom texts, and it is not intended to be used in its entirety. Note that a separate list of materials on slavery drawn from The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is available here; you are welcome to select materials from both lists.
Selections from other Broadview books can also be added to your custom text. This includes material from other Broadview anthologies, as well as selections from any of our more than 400 stand-alone editions, from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano to The Octoroon and from Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano to Clotel. You can add selections from these other books by navigating through the titles listed under the “Books” tab at top. If the selection or book you wish to add is not listed there (or if you’d rather work directly with a person to assemble your custom text), please contact our Custom Text Coordinator at custom@broadviewpress.com.
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Race, Slavery, and America, 1820–1860
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69 pages @ $0.10/page
$6.90
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Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial & In Context (from BAAL Vol A web)
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18 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.80
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James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (from BAAL Vol A web)
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18 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.80
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Lucy Terry, Bars Fight (from BAAL Vol A)
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2 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.20
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Lucy Terry, Bars Fight In Context: Josiah Holland's Account of the Bars Fight
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1 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.10
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John Marrant, A Narrative of the Lord
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16 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.60
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Benjamin Franklin, On the Slave Trade (from BAAL Vol A)
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8 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.80
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Thomas Jefferson, from Notes on the State of Virginia (from BAAL Vol A)
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30 pages @ $0.10/page
$3.00
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Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa (from BAAL Vol A)
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16 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.60
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Contexts: Slavery and Resistance (from BAAL Vol A)
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25 pages @ $0.10/page
$2.50
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Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (from BAAL Vol A)
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44 pages @ $0.10/page
$4.40
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Absalom Jones, The Petition of the People of Colour (from BAAL Vol A)
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4 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.40
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Absalom Jones, from A Thanksgiving Sermon (from BAAL Vol A web)
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5 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.50
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Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, from A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People (from BAAL Vol A web)
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12 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.20
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Richard Allen, from Confession of John Joyce, Alias Davis, Who Was Executed on Monday, the 14th of March, 1808
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8 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.80
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Briton Hammon, A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man (from BAAL Vol A)
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6 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.60
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Philip Freneau, To Sir Toby, In Context: Slavery in the Caribbean (from BAAL Vol A)
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8 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.80
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Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America; To S.M.,1 a Young African Painter (from BAAL Vol A)
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19 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.90
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Phillis Wheatley, On the Death of General Wooster (from BAAL Vol A web)
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3 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.30
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Lemuel Haynes, from Liberty Further Extended (from BAAL Vol A)
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7 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.70
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Royall Tyler, from The Algerine Captive (from BAAL Vol A web)
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8 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.80
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Susanna Haswell Rowson, Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom (from BAAL Vol A)
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28 pages @ $0.10/page
$2.80
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Charles Brockden Brown, from An Address to the Government of the US on the Cession of Louisiana to the French (from BAAL Vol A web)
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18 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.80
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David George, An Account of the Life of David George (from BAAL Vol A web)
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9 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.90
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Race, Slavery, and America, 1820–1860
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18 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.80
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick, from Slavery in New England (from BAAL Vol B web)
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12 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.20
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Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Slavery (from BAAL Vol B)
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5 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.50
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Lydia Huntley Sigourney, To the First Slave Ship (from BAAL Vol B web)
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1 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.10
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George Moses Horton, On Liberty and Slavery & others (from BAAL Vol B)
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10 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.00
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George Moses Horton, Like Brothers We Meet (from BAAL Vol B)
Weep
Lincoln Is Dead
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6 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.60
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John Brown, from John Brown’s Provisional Constitution (from BAAL Vol B)
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4 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.40
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Solomon Northup, from Twelve Years a Slave (from BAAL Vol B web)
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28 pages @ $0.10/page
$2.80
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Lydia Maria Child (from BAAL Vol B)
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20 pages @ $0.10/page
$2.00
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Lydia Maria Child, from An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (from BAAL Vol B)
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14 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.40
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Angelina Grimk, from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South; from Letters to Catherine E. Beecher [web reading]
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14 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.40
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William Gilmore Simms (from BAAL Vol B) forthcoming 2023
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1 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.10
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (from BAAL Vol B)
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9 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.90
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Abraham Lincoln, from Speech delivered at the Republican State Convention in Springfield, Illinois [“A House Divided”]
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6 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.60
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Abraham Lincoln, from Cooper Union Address (from BAAL Vol B)
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4 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.40
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John Greenleaf Whittie, The Hunters of Men; Massachusetts to Virginia; The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother to Her Daughters (from BAAL Vol B)
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32 pages @ $0.10/page
$3.20
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Nineteenth-Century Oratory (from BAAL Vol B)
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25 pages @ $0.10/page
$2.50
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Nineteenth-Century Oratory (from BAAL Vol B, web)
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57 pages @ $0.10/page
$5.70
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David Walker, from Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles
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15 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.50
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Contexts: Slavery and Abolition (from BAAL Vol B)
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35 pages @ $0.10/page
$3.50
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William Lloyd Garrison, To the Public (from BAAL Vol B)
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4 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.40
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William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society (from BAAL Vol B)
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3 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.30
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Sojourner Truth, from The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave (from BAAL Vol B)
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15 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.50
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In Context: Harriet Beecher Stowe, In Context: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Public
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11 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.10
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African American Oral Literature (from BAAL Vol B)
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17 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.70
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James Monroe Whitfield, America; The North Star; Stanzas for the First of August (from BAAL Vol B)
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7 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.70
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James Monroe Whitfield, from J.M. Whitfield in Reply to F. Douglass (from BAAL Vol B)
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3 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.30
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Martin R. Delany, Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent (from BAAL Vol B)
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22 pages @ $0.10/page
$2.20
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Martin R. Delany, from Blake; or, the Huts of America (from BAAL Vol B)
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22 pages @ $0.10/page
$2.20
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (from BAAL Vol B)
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55 pages @ $0.10/page
$5.50
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Uncle’s Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (web)
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93 pages @ $0.10/page
$9.30
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Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (from BAAL Vol B)
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45 pages @ $0.10/page
$4.50
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William Wells Brown, from The Narrative of the Life and Escape of William Wells Brown
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28 pages @ $0.10/page
$2.80
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William Wells Brown, from Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter
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6 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.60
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Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself
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83 pages @ $0.10/page
$8.30
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Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave
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22 pages @ $0.10/page
$2.20
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Frederick Douglass, from My Bondage and Freedom
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6 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.60
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Frederick Douglass, from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
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10 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.00
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Contexts: The Civil War and Its Literature
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42 pages @ $0.10/page
$4.20
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Walt Whitman, from 1855 Leaves of Grass
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75 pages @ $0.10/page
$7.50
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Walt Whitman; from November Boughs, Negro Slaves in New York
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3 pages @ $0.10/page
$0.30
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Herman Melville, from Moby-Dick
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83 pages @ $0.10/page
$8.30
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Harriet Wilson, from Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North
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16 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.60
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William and Ellen Craft, from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
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14 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.40
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, A Dialogue; Aunt Chloe
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14 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.40
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, The Slave Mother, Bible Defense of Slavery
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21 pages @ $0.10/page
$2.10
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary, from A Plea for Emigration; American Slavery; The Right of Women to Vote
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13 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.30
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Louisa May Alcott, My Contraband
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13 pages @ $0.10/page
$1.30
