The American Future (28 page)

The campaign to register black voters, Virginia, 1960.

Printed version of Jefferson's original draft for the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, 1778–79, sections of which were preserved in the version James Madison steered through the Virginia Assembly in 1786.

Charles Grandison Finney, the abolitionist thunderer of Oberlin, with the eyes that made sinners and slavers cringe.

Jarena Lee, itinerant black preacher in the Atlantic states; frontispiece from her autobiography.

African American schoolchildren in North Carolina around the time of emancipation, 1863.

Very early photograph of First African Baptist Church, probably Savannah.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, preacher, literary editor, colonel of the 1st South Carolina (black) Volunteers and the first anthologist of black spirituals.

The Fisk Jubilee Singers as they would have looked at the time of their recital before Queen Victoria, 1875.

Poor white itinerant evangelicals, Louisiana, 1938.

Frontispiece portrait of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur from the first edition of
Letters from an American Farmer
, 1782.

The beauteous Citizen Know-Nothing, imagined as the frontispiece to sheet music for the party at the height of its political power, 1854.

Anti-Mexican newspaper cartoon at the time of the Mexican War, complete with lustful, dagger- wielding Latinos.

Chinese railroad construction workers, Montana, 1870s.