Chapter I Early Life
Parentage—Early Impressions—Childhood Skepticism—Religious
Experience—The Great Leveler—Marriage—Removal to Michigan—The
Semi-Christian—The Despairing Backslider
Restored—Proscription—Withdrawal from the Society of Friends—Founded
“Raisin Institute,”
Chapter II Bereavements
Dream—Bereavements—Early Widowhood—Trials—Dreamy—Victory by Faith—A Fugitive Slave Escapes—Marriage of two Older Children,
Chapter III Anti-Slavery Experiences
Baptist Deacon Convicted of the Sin of Slavery by his Slave—Willis Hamilton’s Escape with his Slave-wife, Elsie, to Canada—Removal to Michigan—Whereabouts Discovered by Elsie’s Master—Deeply Laid Scheme to Capture the Hamilton Family—Threats of Violence—Second Attempt and Defeat—Death of the two Slave-holders,