This compilation, pulled together by abolitionist and author Lydia Maria Child, makes an anti-slavery argument through quotes pulled from Southern newspapers, fugitive slave notices, laws, political figures, authors, religious figures, abolitionists, and other prominent figures, according to various subject areas, including:
- Southern Prophecies
- Southern Fulfillment of the Preceding Prophecies
- Southern Statements of the Happiness of Slaves
- Southern Proofs that Slaves are "Happy and Contented"
- Southern Proofs of the "Chivalrous and High-Minded Character" Produced by Slavery
- Southern Proofs that "the Physical Condition of Slaves is Better than that of Northern Laborers"
- Southern Prospects for Northern Laborers and Mechanics
- Southern Testimony Concerning the Effects of Slavery on the States
- Southern Opinions Concerning the Extension of Slavery
- Southern and Northern Democrats Now Leagued for the Extension of Slavery