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List of Illustrations | p. xv |
Introduction | p. xix |
Note on the Text | p. lv |
Chronology | p. lvii |
Cast of Characters | p. lxii |
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | |
Preface by the Author | p. 1 |
Introduction by the Editor | p. 3 |
Childhood | p. 5 |
The New Master and Mistress | p. 10 |
The Slaves' New Year's Day | p. 17 |
The Slave Who Dared to Feel like a Man | p. 20 |
The Trials of Girlhood | p. 33 |
The Jealous Mistress | p. 38 |
The Lover | p. 46 |
What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North | p. 54 |
Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders | p. 58 |
A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life | p. 68 |
The New Tie to Life | p. 75 |
Fear of Insurrection | p. 81 |
The Church and Slavery | p. 88 |
Another Link to Life | p. 98 |
Continued Persecutions | p. 103 |
Scenes at the Plantation | p. 111 |
The Flight | p. 122 |
Months of Peril | p. 126 |
The Children Sold | p. 135 |
New Perils | p. 141 |
The Loophole of Retreat | p. 146 |
Christmas Festivities | p. 151 |
Still in Prison | p. 154 |
The Candidate for Congress | p. 159 |
Competition in Cunning | p. 163 |
Important Era in My Brother's Life | p. 169 |
New Destination for the Children | p. 175 |
Aunt Nancy | p. 183 |
Preparations for Escape | p. 189 |
Northward Bound | p. 200 |
Incidents in Philadelphia | p. 204 |
The Meeting of Mother and Daughter | p. 210 |
A Home Found | p. 215 |
The Old Enemy Again | p. 219 |
Prejudice against Color | p. 224 |
The Hairbreadth Escape | p. 228 |
A Visit to England | p. 234 |
Renewed Invitations to Go South | p. 238 |
The Confession | p. 241 |
The Fugitive Slave Law | p. 244 |
Free at Last | p. 251 |
Appendix | p. 261 |
A True Tale of Slavery | |
Some Account of My Early Life | p. 265 |
A Further Account of My Family | p. 267 |
My Uncle's Troubles | p. 271 |
My New Master's Plantation | p. 275 |
My Master Goes to Washington | p. 27S |
Sensations of Freedom | p. 282 |
Cruel Treatment of Slaves | p. 286 |
Illustrations | p. 293 |
Abbreviations | p. 309 |
Correspondence | p. 311 |
Notes | p. 343 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 405 |
Acknowledgments | p. 413 |
Index | p. 417 |
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