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| Author's Birth | |
| Author's place of birth | |
| Description of country | |
| Its inhabitants | |
| Genealogical trees | |
| Method of counting time in slave districts | |
| Date of author's birth | |
| Names of grandparents | |
| Their cabin | |
| Home with them | |
| Slave practice of separating mothers from their children | |
| Author's recollections of his mother | |
| Who was his father? | |
| Removal from Grandmother's | |
| Author's early home | |
| Its charms | |
| Author's ignorance of "old master" | |
| His gradual perception of the truth concerning him | |
| His relations to Col. Edward Lloyd | |
| Author's removal to "old master's" home | |
| His journey thence | |
| His separation from his grandmother | |
| His grief | |
| Troubles of Childhood | |
| Col. Lloyd's plantation | |
| Aunt Katy | |
| Her cruelty and ill-nature | |
| Capt. Anthony's partiality to Aunt Katy | |
| Allowance of food | |
| Author's hunger | |
| Unexpected rescue by his mother | |
| The reproof of Aunt Katy | |
| Sleep | |
| A slave-mother's love | |
| Author's inheritance | |
| His mother's acquirements | |
| Her death | |
| A General Survey of the Slave Plantation | |
| Home plantation of Colonel Lloyd | |
| Its isolation | |
| Its industries | |
| The slave rule | |
| Power of overseers | |
| Author finds some enjoyment | |
| Natural scenery | |
| Sloop "Sally Lloyd" | |
| Wind-mill | |
| Slave quarter | |
| "Old master's" house | |
| Stables, store-houses, etc., etc. | |
| The great house | |
| Its surroundings | |
| Lloyd Burialplace | |
| Superstition of Slaves | |
| Colonel Lloyd's wealth | |
| Negro politeness | |
| Doctor Copper | |
| Captain Anthony | |
| His family | |
| Master Daniel Lloyd | |
| His brothers | |
| Social etiquette | |
| A Slaveholder's Character | |
| Increasing acquaintance with old master | |
| Evils of unresisted passion | |
| Apparent tenderness | |
| A man of trouble | |
| Custom of muttering to himself | |
| Brutal outrage | |
| A drunken overseer | |
| Slaveholder's impatience | |
| Wisdom of appeal | |
| A base and selfish attempt to break up a courtship | |
| A Child's Reasoning | |
| The author's early reflections on Slavery | |
| Aunt Jennie and Uncle Noah | |
| Presentiment of one day becoming a freeman | |
| Conflict between an overseer and a slave woman | |
| Advantage of resistance | |
| Death of an overseer | |
| Col. Lloyd's plantation home | |
| Monthly distribution of food | |
| Singing of Slaves | |
| An esplanation | |
| The slaves' food and clothing | |
| Naked Children | |
| Life in the quarter | |
| Sleeping-places | |
| Not beds | |
| Deprivation of sleep | |
| Care of nursing babies | |
| Ash cake | |
| Contrast | |
| Luxuries at the Great House | |
| Contrasts | |
| Great House luxuries | |
| Its hospitality | |
| Entertainments | |
| Fault-finding | |
| Shameful humiliation of an old and faithful coachman | |
| William Wilks | |
| Curious incident | |
| Expressed satisfaction not always genuine | |
| Reasons for suppressing the truth | |
| Characteristics of Overseers | |
| Austin Gore | |
| Sketch | |
| Of his character | |
| Overseers as a class | |
| Their peculiar characteristics | |
| The marked individuality of Austin Gore | |
| His sense of duty | |
| Murder of poor Denby | |
| Sensation | |
| How Gore made his peace with Col. Lloyd | |
| Other horrible murders | |
| No laws for the protection of slaves possible of being enforced | |
| Change of Location | |
| Miss Lucretia | |
| Her kindness | |
| How it was manifested | |
| "lke" | |
| A battle with him | |
| Miss Lucretia's balsam | |
| Bread | |
| How it was obtained | |
| Gleams of sunset amidst the general darkness | |
| Suffering from cold | |
| How we took our meal mush | |
| Preparations for going to Baltimore | |
| Delight at the change | |
| Cousin Tom's opinion of Baltimore | |
| Arrival there | |
| Kind reception | |
| Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Auld | |
| Their son Tommy | |
| My relations to them | |
| My duties | |
| A turning-point in my life | |
| Learning to Read | |
| City annoyances | |
| Plantation regrets | |
| My mistress | |
| Her history | |
| Her kindness | |
| My master | |
| His sourness | |
| My comforts | |
| Increased sensitiveness | |
| My occupation | |
| Learning to read | |
| Baneful effects of slaveholding on my dear, good mistress | |
| Mr. Hugh forbids Mrs. Sophia to teach me further | |
| Clouds gather on my bright prospects | |
| Master Auld's exposition of the Philosophy of Slavery | |
| City slaves | |
| Country slaves | |
| Contrasts | |
| Exceptions | |
| Mr. Hamilton's two slaves | |
| Mrs. Hamilton's cruel treatment of them | |
| Piteous aspect presented by them | |
| No power to come between the slave and slaveholder | |
| Growing in Knowledge | |
| My mistress | |
| Her slaveholding duties | |
| Their effects on her originally noble nature | |
| The conflict in her mind | |
| She opposes my learning to read | |
| Too late | |
| She had given me the "inch," I was resolved to take the "ell" | |
| How I pursued my study to read | |
| My tutors | |
| What progress I made | |
| Slavery | |
| What I heard said about it | |
| Thirteen years old | |
| Columbian orator | |
| Dialogue | |
| Speeches | |
| Sheridan | |
| Pitt | |
| Lords Chatham and Fox | |
| Knowledge increasing | |
| Liberty | |
| Singing | |
| Sadness | |
| Unhappiness of Mrs. Sophia | |
| My hatred of slavery | |
| One Upas tree overshadaws us all | |
| Religious Nature Awakened | |
| Abolitionists spoken of | |
| Eagerness to know the meaning of word | |
| Consults the dictionary | |
| Incendiary information | |
| The enigma solved | |
| "Nat Turner" insurrection | |
| Cholera | |
| Religion | |
| Methodist minister | |
| Religious impressions | |
| Father Lawson | |
| His character and occupation | |
| His influence over me | |
| Our mutual attachment | |
| New hopes and aspirations | |
| Heavenly light | |
| Two Irishmen on wharf | |
| Conversation with them | |
| Learning to write | |
| My aims | |
| The Vicissitudes of Slave Life | |
| Death of old Master's son Richard, speedily followed by that of old Master | |
| Valuation and division of all the property, including the slaves | |
| Sent for to come to Hillsborough to be valued and divided | |
| Sad prospects and grief | |
| Parting | |
| Slaves have no voice in deciding their own destinies | |
| General dread of falling into Master Andrew's hands | |
| His drunkenness | |
| Good fortune in falling to Miss Lucretia | |
| She allows my return to Baltimore | |
| Joy at Master Hugh's | |
| Death of Miss Lucretia | |
| Master Thomas Auld's second marriage | |
| The new wife unlike the old | |
| Again removed from Master Hugh's | |
| Reasons for regret | |
| Plan of escape | |
| Experience in St. Michaels | |
| St. Michaels and its inhabitants | |
| Capt. Auld | |
| His new wife | |
| Sufferings from hunger | |
| Forced to steal | |
| Argument in vindication thereof | |
| Southern camp-meeting | |
| What Capt. Auld did there | |
| Hopes | |
| Suspicions | |
| The result | |
| Faith and works at variance | |
| Position in the church | |
| Poor Cousin Henny | |
| Methodist preachers | |
| Their disregard of the slaves | |
| One exception | |
| Sabbath-school | |
| How and by whom broken up | |
| Sad change in my prospects | |
| Covey, the negro-breaker | |
| Covey, the Negro Breaker | |
| Journey to Covey's | |
| Meditations by the way | |
| Covey's house | |
| Family | |
| Awkwardness as a field hand | |
| A cruel beating | |
| Why given | |
| Description of Covey | |
| First attempt at driving oxen | |
| Hair-breadth escape | |
| Ox and man alike property | |
| Hard labor more effective than the whip for breaking down the spirit | |
| Cunning and trickery of Covey | |
| Family worship | |
| Shocking and indecent contempt for chastity | |
| Great mental agitation | |
| Anguish beyond description | |
| Another Pressure of the Tyrant's Vise | |
| Experience at Covey's summed up | |
| First six month's severer than the remaining six | |
| Preliminaries to the change | |
| Reasons for narrating the circumstances | |
| Scene in the treading-yard | |
| Author taken ill | |
| Escapes to St. Michaels | |
| The pursuit | |
| Suffering in the woods | |
| Talk with Master Thomas | |
| His beating | |
| Driven back to Covey's | |
| The slaves never sick | |
| Natural to expect them to feign sickness | |
| Laziness of slaveholders | |
| The Last Flogging | |
| A sleepless night | |
| Return to Covey's | |
| Punished by him | |
| The chase defeated | |
| Vengeance postponed | |
| Musings in the woods | |
| The alternative | |
| Deplorable spectacle | |
| Night in the woods | |
| Expected attack | |
| Accosted by Sandy | |
| A friend, not a master | |
| Sandy's hospitality | |
| The ash-cake supper | |
| Interview with Sandy | |
| His advice | |
| Sandy a conjuror as well as a Christian | |
| The magic root | |
| Strange meeting with Covey | |
| His manner | |
| Covey's Sunday face | |
| Author's defensive resolve | |
| The fight | |
| The victory, and its results | |
| New Relations and Duties | |
| Change of masters | |
| Benefits derived by change | |
| Fame of the fight with Covey | |
| Reckless unconcern | |
| Author's abhorrence of slavery | |
| Ability to read a cause of prejudice | |
| The holidays | |
| How spent | |
| Sharp hit at slavery | |
| Effects of holidays | |
| Difference between Covey and Freeland | |
| An irreligious master preferred to a religious one | |
| Hard life at Covey's useful to the author | |
| Improved condition does not bring contentment | |
| Congenial society at Freeland's | |
| Author's Sabbath-school | |
| Secrecy necessary | |
| Affectionate relations of tutor and pupils | |
| Confidence and friendship among slaves | |
| Slavery the inviter of vengeance | |
| The Runaway Plot | |
| New Year's thoughts and meditations | |
| Again hired by Freeland | |
| Kindness no compensation for slavery | |
| Incipient steps toward escape | |
| Considerations leading thereto | |
| Hostility to slavery | |
| Solemn vow taken | |
| Plan divulged to slaves | |
| Columbian orator again | |
| Scheme gains favor | |
| Danger of discovery | |
| Skill of slaveholders | |
| Suspicion and coercion | |
| Hymns with double meaning | |
| Consultation | |
| Pass-word | |
| Hope and fear | |
| Ignorance of Geography | |
| Imaginary difficulties | |
| Patrick Henry | |
| Sandy a dreamer | |
| Route to the north mapped out | |
| Objections | |
| Frauds | |
| Passes | |
| Anxieties | |
| Fear of failure | |
| Strange presentiment | |
| Coincidence | |
| Betrayal | |
| Arrests | |
| Resistance | |
| Mrs. Freeland | |
| Prison | |
| Brutal Jests | |
| Passes eaten | |
| Denial | |
| Sandy | |
| Dragged behind horses | |
| Slave traders | |
| Alone in prison | |
| Sent to Baltimore | |
| Apprenticeship Life | |
| Nothing lost in my attempt to run away | |
| Comrades at home | |
| Reasons for sending me away | |
| eturn to Baltimore | |
| Tommy changed | |
| Caulking in Gardiner's ship yard | |
| Desperate fight | |
| Its causes | |
| Conflict between white and black labor | |
| Outrage | |
| Testimony | |
| Master Hugh | |
| Slavery in Baltimore | |
| My condition improves | |
| New associations | |
| Slaveholder's right to the slave's wages | |
| How to make a discontented slave | |
| Escape from Slavery | |
| Closing incidents in my "Life as a Slave" | |
| Discontent | |
| Suspicions | |
| Master's generosity | |
| Difficulties in the way of escape | |
| Plan to obtain money | |
| Allowed to hire my time | |
| A gleam of hope | |
| Attend camp-meeting | |
| Anger of Master Hugh | |
| The result | |
| Plans of escape | |
| Day for departure fixed | |
| Harassing doubts and fears-Painful thoughts of separation from friends | |
| Escape From Slavery | |
| Reasons for not having revealed the manner of escape | |
| Nothing of romance in the method | |
| Danger | |
| Free papers | |
| Unjust tax | |
| Protection papers | |
| "Free trade and sailors' rights" | |
| American eagle | |
| Railroad train | |
| Unobserving conductor | |
| Capt. McGowan | |
| Honest German | |
| Fears | |
| Safe arrival in Philadelphia | |
| Ditto in New York | |
| Life as a Freeman | |
| Loneliness and insecurity | |
| "Allender's Jake" | |
| Succored by a sailor | |
| David Ruggles | |
| Marriage | |
| Steamer J. W. Richmond | |
| Stage to New Bedford | |
| Arrival there | |
| Driver's detention of baggage | |
| Nathan Johnson | |
| Change of name | |
| Why called "Douglass" | |
| Obtaining Work | |
| The Liberator and its Editor | |
| Introduced to the Abolitionists | |
| Anti-Slavery Convention at Nantucket | |
| First Speech | |
| Much Sensation | |
| Extraordinary Speech of Mr. Garrison | |
| Anti-Slavery Agency | |
| Youthful Enthusiasm | |
| Fugitive Slaveship Doubted | |
| Experience in slavery written | |
| Danger of Recapture | |
| Recollections of Old Friends | |
| Work in Rhode Island | |
| Dorr War | |
| Recollections of old friends | |
| Further labors in Rhode Island and elsewhere in New England | |
| One Hundred Conventions | |
| Anti-Slavery Conventions held in parts of New England, and in some of the Middle and Western States | |
| Mobs | |
| Incidents, etc. | |
| Impressions Abroad | |
| Danger to be averted | |
| A refuge sought abroad | |
| Voyage on the steamship Cambria | |
| Refusal of first-class passage | |
| Attractions of the fore-castle deck | |
| Hutchinson family | |
| Invited to make a speech | |
| Southerners feel insulted | |
| Captain threatens to put them in irons | |
| Experiences abroad | |
| Attentions received | |
| Impressions of different members of Parliament, and of other public men | |
| Contrast with life in America | |
| Kindness of friends | |
| Their purchase of my person, and the gift of the same to myself | |
| My return | |
| Triumphs and Trials | |
| New Experiences | |
| Painful Disagreement of Opinion with old Friends | |
| Final Decision to publish my Paper in Rochester | |
| Its Fortunes and its Friends | |
| Change in my own Views Regarding the Constitution of the United States | |
| Fidelity to Conviction | |
| Loss of Old Friends | |
| Support of New Ones | |
| Loss of House, etc., by Fire | |
| Triumphs and Trials | |
| Underground Railroad | |
| Incidents | |
| John Brown and Mrs. Stowe | |
| My First Meeting with Capt. John Brown | |
| The Free Soil Movement | |
| Colored Convention | |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| Industrial School for Colored People | |
| Letter to Mrs. H. B. Stowe | |
| Increasing Demands of the Slave Power | |
| Increased demands of slavery | |
| War in Kansas | |
| John Brown's raid | |
| His capture and execution | |
| My escape to England from United States marshals | |
| The Beginning of the End | |
| My connection with John Brown | |
| To and from England | |
| Presidential contest | |
| Election of Abraham Lincoln | |
| Secession and War | |
| Recruiting of the 54th and 55th Colored Regiments | |
| Visit to President Lincoln and Secretary Stanton | |
| Promised a Commission as Adjutant-General to General Thomas | |
| Disappointment | |
| Hope for the Nation | |
| Proclamation of emancipation | |
| Its reception in Boston | |
| Objections brought against it | |
| Its effect on the country | |
| Interview with President Lincoln | |
| New York riots | |
| Re-election of Mr. Lincoln | |
| His inauguration, and inaugural | |
| Vice-President Johnson | |
| Presidential reception | |
| The fall of Richmond | |
| Fanueil Hall | |
| The assassination | |
| Condolence | |
| Vast Changes | |
| Satisfaction and anxiety, new fields of labor opening | |
| Lyceums and colleges soliciting addresses | |
| Literary attractions | |
| Pecuniary gain | |
| Still pleading for human rights | |
| President Andy Johnson | |
| Colored delegation | |
| Their reply to him | |
| National Loyalist Convention, 1866, and its procession | |
| Not wanted | |
| Meeting with an old friend | |
| Joy and surprise | |
| The old master's welcome, and Miss Amanda's friendship | |
| Enfranchisement debated and accomplished | |
| The negro a citizen | |
| Living and Learning | |
| Inducement to a political career | |
| Objections | |
| A newspaper enterprise | |
| The New National Era | |
| Its abandonment | |
| The Freedman's Saving and Trust Company | |
| Sad experience | |
| Vindication | |
| Weighted in the Balance | |
| The Santo Domingo controversy | |
| Decoration Day at Arlington, 1871 | |
| Speech delivered there | |
| National colored convention at New Orleans, 1872 | |
| Elector at large for the State of New York | |
| Death of Hon. Henry Wilson | |
| "Time Makes all Things Even." | |
| Return to "old master" | |
| A last interview | |
| Capt. Auld's admission "had I been in your place, I should have done as you did" | |
| Speech at Easton | |
| The old jail there | |
| Invited to a sail on the revenue cutter Guthrie | |
| Hon. John L. Thomas | |
| Visit to the old plantation | |
| Home of Col. Llopyd | |
| King reception and attentions | |
| Familiar scenes | |
| Old memories | |
| Burial-ground-Hospitality | |
| Gracious reception from Mrs. Buchanan | |
| A little girl's floral gift | |
| A promise of a "good time coming" | |
| Speech at Harper's Ferry, Decoration day, 1881 | |
| Storer College | |
| Hon. A. J. Hunter | |
| Incidents and Events | |
| Hon. Gerrit Smith and Mr. E. C. Delevan | |
| Experiences at Hotels and on Steamboats and other modes of travel | |
| Hon. Edward Marshall | |
| Grace Greenwood | |
| Hon. Moses Norris | |
| Robert J. Ingersoll | |
| Reflections and conclusions | |
| Compensations | |
| "Honor to Whom Honor." | |
| Grateful recognition | |
| Friends in need | |
| Lucretia Mott | |
| Lydia Maria Child | |
| Sarah and Angelina Grimke | |
| Abby Kelley | |
| H. Beecher Stowe | |
| Other Friends | |
| Woman Suffrage | |
| Retrospection | |
| Meeting of colored citizens in Washington to express their sympathy at the great national bereavement, the death of President Garfield | |
| Concluding reflections and conviction | |
| Appendix | |
| Oration at the unveiling of the Freedmen's monument, at Lincoln Park, Washington, D. C., April 14, 1876 | |
| Extract from a speech delivered at Elmira, N. Y., August 1, 1880 | |
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