"This little book is to be published for the express purpose of giving a helping hand to suffering and persecuted merit. And ... it may subserve a very important purpose, in bringing forward, and setting before the colored population, an example of industry and untiring perseverance ..."--Preface, p. [v].
"Preface to the second edition."--p. [vi]-vii.
Attributed to Frances Harriet Green.
Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.