Susannah Rowson, excerpts from Charlotte Temple, 1791 -- Martha Ballard's diary : two months in the life of a Maine midwife, 1800 -- Eliza Leslie, "The slaves," a short story from The young ladies' mentor, 1803 -- Tapping Reeve, excerpts from The law of Baron and Femme, 1816 -- Cherokee Women's Petitions 1817, 1818, and 1831 -- Lydia Maria Child, excerpts from The American frugal housewife, 1830 -- Alexis de Tocqueville, excerpts from Democracy in America, volume II, 1840 -- Catharine Beecher, excerpts from A treatise on domestic economy, 1841 -- Letters by Amy Galusha, A Lowell Mill girls, 1849-1851 -- Salem Female charitable Society Constitution, 1804 -- African Dorcas Association, 1828 -- Female Moral Reform Society report, 1835 -- Maria Sturges, address to Christian females in slaveholding states, 1836 -- Fathers and Rulers Petition, 1836 -- Controversy over abolitionist lectures of the Grimk* sisters, 1837 -- Mary Lyon's plans for the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1837 -- Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock Jones, "Anti-slavery sewing circles," 1847 -- "World's" Temperance Conventions, 1853 -- "Linda Brent" (Harriet Jacobs), excerpts from Incidents in the life of a slave girl written by herself, 1861 -- Mary Davis letter in support of abolition and the liberty party, 1847 -- Resolutions and declaration of sentiments adopted by the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention, 1848 -- Mary Sheldon's composition book entry : "Women and politics," 1848 -- Jane Swisshelm attacks the Compromise of 1850 -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, excerpts from Uncle Tom's cabin, 1851 -- Sojourner truth's "Aren't I a woman?" speech, as reported in 1851 and 1863 -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper on free labor, 1854 -- Jessie Fr*mont song, 1856 -- Lydia Maria Child's letter to Governor Wise regarding John Brown, 1859 -- Susan B. Anthony letter describing a "wide awake" Republican Serenade, 1860 -- Anna Dickinson's letter in support of Lincoln, 1864.