William and Ellen Crafts Spring The Good Grandmother The Colored Mother's Prayer William Costin Education of Children Thank God for Little Children Sam and Andy John Brown The Air of Freedom Emancipation in the District of Columbia The Laws of Health President Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation New-Year's Day on the Islands of South Carolina Song of the Negro Boatmen at Port Royal, S. C. Extract from Speech to Colored People in Charleston Extract from Speech to Colored People in Charleston Black Tom Letter from a Freedman Colonel Robert G. Shaw