Table of Contents:
  • Religion and the pure principles of morality, the sure foundation on which we must build / Maria W. Steward
  • The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee, a coloured lady, giving an account of her call to preach the gospel / Jarena Lee
  • Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a northern slave / Sojourner Truth
  • "The two offers" / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • Our nig; or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North / Harriet E. Wilson
  • Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet A. Jacobs
  • "Life on the sea islands" / Charlotte L. Forten.