"Like Adam, we are all apt to shift off the blame from ourselves and lay it upon others, how justly in our case you may judge. The Negroes are enslaved by the Negroes themselves before they are ...

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document. James Otis, a Harvard-educated scholar of literature and law, was prominent within colonial Boston's political, literary ...

Part I: Issues and methods -- Prologomenal thinking: some possibilities and limits of comparative desire / Teresa Toulouse -- First peoples: an introduction to early native american studies / Joanna ...