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"The Slave and Slave Owner"
Abolitionist sketch published in a giftbook created for the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society (1858).
"New York Fountains and Astor Baths"
A sketch describing public fountains and art in New York City.
"Magnetism Among the Shakers"
A sketch in which the speaker relates a conversation between an older male Shaker and his sister about Shaker beliefs and practices.
"Might Versus Right"
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 Patch-Work Quilt"
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.