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

New York Fountains and Astor Baths.pdf
A sketch describing public fountains and art in New York City.

Story about a young woman's passionate first love, her parents' intervention, and her subsequent happy marriage to another man.

Magnetism Among the Shakers pdf.pdf
A sketch in which the speaker relates a conversation between an older male Shaker and his sister about Shaker beliefs and practices.

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A modest young woman from the country comes to live with her city cousins, and uses Biblical and parental precepts to adjust and thrive.

A young girl from a modest family is hurt by another young girl from a wealthy family.

Might versus Right.pdf
A young woman from a wealthy family marries and her husband legally gains rights to all of her property. The husband's poor business management and drinking cause him to lose the money, and the wife must work to support the family. When the husband…

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.

A widower is deceived by a Deacon into believing she has been left nothing. When she marries a man outside of the church she is threatened with excommunication.
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