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ON COMMON GROUND Guide for Teachers and Students
Omar Ibn Said, African Muslim
"Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831," American Historical Review, July 1925, pp. 787-95.
David Walker's Appeal
Walker's Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America. Boston, September 28, 1829, 3d ed., article 3, pp. 39-49.
Sojourner Truth, Abolitionist
Sojourner Truth, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Battle Creek, Mich. Published for the author, 1878, pp.
146-48.
Richard Allen, AME Founder
Richard Allen, The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen. F. Ford and M. A. Riply, 1880, pp. 28-30.
Jarena Lee, Preacher
Jarena Lee, "My Call to Preach the Gospel" The Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel. Revised and corrected from the original manuscript, written by herself. Philadelphia, 1849, pp. 10-13.
Alternative Altars
Emerson and Thoreau
Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes, eds., Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 10 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909-14, vol. 7, p. 11.
Charles Eliot Norton, ed., Letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Friend, 1838-1853. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin; Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1900, pp. 28-29.
Edward Waldo Emerson, ed., The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Centenary ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903-4, vol. 4, p. 49.
"Brahma," Atlantic Monthly, November 1857, p. 48.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854, pp. 117-18, 318-19.
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H. Blavatsky: Key to Theosophy
Helena P. Blavatsky, The Key to Theosophy. London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1893, pp. 1-4,
28-29.
M. B. Eddy: Christian Science
Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures. Boston: Joseph Armstrong, 1904, pp. 107-9.
Joseph Smith: Mormonism
Joseph Smith, The History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City: Desert News, 1902, vol. 1, pp. 2-6.
Mormonism: Islam of America
Bruce Kinney, "From the Editorial Committee," in Bruce Kinney, Mormonism, The Islam of America. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1912, pp. 5-12.