Included in this collection is Green’s journal which describes his journey from upstate New York to Mississippi where he acquires a teaching position, his social and professional activities, encounters with slaves and his detestation of slavery, and his health, which along with his distaste for “the country,” precipitates his return North. The journal picks up again as Greene is practicing law in Livingston County, NY and documents his professional, familial and social activities, and his health.