Abolition and Aftermath
- William Wells Brown (c.1814-84) From ‘Anti-Slavery Meeting’ [Speech by Brown, August, 1854]
- Martin Delany (1812-85) From Introduction to Four Months in Liberia: or African Colonization Exposed (1855)
- [Rev.] E.S. Mathews (1812-?) From The Autobiography of the Rev. E. Mathews (1867) ‘To William Wells Brown, The American Fugitive Slave’ (1855)
- Frederick Douglass (C. 1835-1895) ‘Haiti and the United States’ Parts I and II (1891)
- William Craft (1824–1900) and Ellen Craft (1826–91) from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860)
- Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (1780-1865) and Pierre Toussaint (1766-1853) Excerpt from Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (1854)
- Transatlantic Exchange on Abolition as the Union’s Newly Declared War Aim (1862-63)
Arts, Aesthetics and Entertainment
Business, Industry and Labour
- Herman Melville (1819-1891) From ‘Poor Man’s Crumbs and Rich Man’s Pudding’ in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (1854)
- Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (1780-1865) and Pierre Toussaint (1766-1853) Excerpt from Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (1854)
- Transatlantic Exchange on Abolition as the Union’s Newly Declared War Aim (1862-63)
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) “Surly Tim, A Lancashire Story” (1872)
- Captain E. Rogers (1836-1915) ‘The Gun of the Age’, Once a Week (1872)
- Louis Jackson (1843-?) From Our Caughnawagas in Egypt (1885)
Family and Domesticity
- Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825) and John Aikin (1747-1822) ‘The Little Philosopher’ from Evenings at Home (1796)
- Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825) & John Aikin (1747-1822) ‘The Flying Fish’ from Evenings at Home (1796)
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) ‘Great-Grandfather’ (1870)
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) “Surly Tim, A Lancashire Story” (1872)
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) “Little Betty’s Kitten Tells Her Story” (1894)
Migration, Settlement and Resistance
- Martin Delany (1812-85) From Introduction to Four Months in Liberia: or African Colonization Exposed (1855)
- Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (1780-1865) and Pierre Toussaint (1766-1853) Excerpt from Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (1854)
- Rubén Darío (1867-1916) ‘A Roosevelt’ (1907)
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
- Frederick Douglass (C. 1835-1895) ‘Haiti and the United States’ Parts I and II (1891)
- Harriet Martineau (1802-76) From Society in America (1837)
- William Blake (1757-1827) Selected Poems
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) From ‘The Present Time’, Latter Day Pamphlets (1850)
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) ‘Letter XIV, 13th February 1837’, From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883)
- Rubén Darío (1867-1916) ‘A Roosevelt’ (1907)
Religion and Secularism
Science and Technology
- Van Wyck Brooks (1886-1963) From ‘Towards Socialism’ in The World of H.G. Wells (1915)
- Captain E. Rogers (1836-1915) ‘The Gun of the Age’, Once a Week (1872)
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) ‘Great-Grandfather’ (1870)
- The Arrival of the Mammoth Steamship “Great Eastern” at New York’ (1860)
Suffrage and Citizenship
- Frederick Douglass (C. 1835-1895) ‘Haiti and the United States’ Parts I and II (1891)
- Harriet Martineau (1802-76) From Society in America (1837)
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) From ‘The Present Time’, Latter Day Pamphlets (1850)