Peter Williams, Jr.: “Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade”

Further Reading

Books

• Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. 2nd ed. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2001.
• Foner, Philip S., and Robert James Branham. Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787–1900. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998.
• Horton, James O. In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700–1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Web Sites

• “Peter Williams, Jr.” Slavery in New York: Life Stories—Profiles of Black New Yorkers during Slavery and Emancipation. New-York Historical Society Web site. www.slaveryinnewyork.org/Life_Stories.pdf.
• Williams, Peter, Jr. “An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; Delivered in the African Church in the City of New-York, January 1, 1808.” DigitalCommons at University of Nebraska—Lincoln Web site. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/.