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The Beauty of Soninberg. A Letter from Wiesbaden.
The narrator writes a letter describing her travels in Germany, and recounts a love story about a beautiful young woman in the town of Soninberg.
Slavery in New England
Sedgwick tells the story of Elizabeth Freeman ("Mum-Bett"), a slave in Massachusetts, who sought and won her freedom after hearing a reading of the Declaration of Independence, with the help of Theodore Sedgwick. She also recounts many of Freeman's…
"The Irish Girl"
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 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.