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A loving mother tells her daughter the truth about her own religious beliefs which are later used to condemn both mother and daughter to death. The mother sacrifices herself to save the life of her daughter.

The Irish Girl.pdf
A young Irish servant is in love with a man whose father will not let him marry her because she is a “Paddy girl.” The young woman drowns, shortly after learning of her beloved's decision to marry a non-Irish woman. Her brother vows revenge, but…

The Patchwork Quilt EDITED JR_DG.pdf
An elderly Black woman's story of a patchwork quilt that was sewn during the thirty years she worked in the home of a White family.

THE SLAVE AND SLAVE-OWNER.pdf
Abolitionist sketch published in a giftbook created for the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society (1858).

The protagonist of the story encounters a peculiar young girl traveling alone by the name of Lizzy Dale when she takes a train car into Boston to see an old friend.

A Huguenot Family Edited.pdf
A story that chronicles the trials of the d’Argile family during the Catholic persecution of the Huguenots—French Protestants—in 1672 under the reign of the “Sun King,” Louis XIV.

A New-England Sabbath edited.pdf
The narrator describes how the Sabbath is observed by the descendants of the Puritans in a typical New-England village.

Sketch of a Bluestocking edited.pdf
A famous woman writer visits a family and challenges their various assumptions about literary women and blue-stockings.
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