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The Freedmen’s Book

by Lydia Maria Child

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  1. 1Title page
  2. 2Dedication
  3. 3Ignatius Sancho
  4. 4Extract From the Tenth Psalm
  5. 5Prejudice Reproved
  6. 6Benjamin Banneker
  7. 7Ethiopia
  8. 8The Hour of Freedom
  9. 9William Boen
  10. 10Anecdote of General Washington
  11. 11Prayer of the Slave
  12. 12Toussaint L’Ouverture
  13. 13The Aspirations of Mingo
  14. 14Bury Me in a Free Land
  15. 15Phillis Wheatley
  16. 16A Pertinent Question
  17. 17The Works of Providence
  18. 18The Dying Christian
  19. 19Kindness to Animals
  20. 20James Forten
  21. 21The Meeting in the Swamp
  22. 22A Reasonable Request
  23. 23The Slave Poet
  24. 24Ratie: A True Story of a Little Hunchback
  25. 25The Kingdom of Christ
  26. 26The Beginning and Progress of Emancipation in the British West Indies
  27. 27The Last Night of Slavery
  28. 28Madison Washington
  29. 29Extract From the Virginia Bill of Rights
  30. 30Praise of Creation
  31. 31Frederick Douglass
  32. 32How the Good Work Goes on
  33. 33Dedication Hymn
  34. 34A Prayer
  35. 35William and Ellen Crafts
  36. 36Spring
  37. 37The Good Grandmother
  38. 38The Colored Mother’s Prayer
  39. 39William Costin
  40. 40Education of Children
  41. 41Thank God for Little Children
  42. 42Sam and Andy
  43. 43John Brown and the Colored Child
  44. 44The Air of Freedom
  45. 45Emancipation in the District of Columbia, April 16, 1862
  46. 46The Laws of Health
  47. 47President Lincoln’s Proclamation of Emancipation, January 1, 1863
  48. 48New-Year’s Day on the Islands of South Carolina, 1863
  49. 49Song of the Negro Boatmen at Port Royal, S. C.
  50. 50Extract From Speech by Hon. Henry Wilson to the Colored People in C…
  51. 51Extract From a Speech by Hon. Judge Kelly to the Colored People in…
  52. 52Black Tom
  53. 53Letter From a Freedman to His Old Master
  54. 54Colonel Robert G. Shaw
  55. 55Advice From an Old Friend
  56. 56Day of Jubilee

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