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PREFACE.

CHAPTER I. — LIFE ON A COTTON PLANTATION.

BIRTH—SOLD IN A RICHMOND SLAVE PEN.

A SLAVE MARKET.

SLAVE WHIPPING AS A BUSINESS.

SOLD IN THE MARKET.

ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

PRICE OF SLAVES.

STARTED FOR A COTTON PLANTATION.

MY MISSISSIPPI HOME.

PLANTATION LIFE.

THE GREAT HOUSE.

HOUSE SERVANT AND ERRAND BOY.

CRUEL TREATMENT.

INSTRUCTIONS IN MEDICINE.

THE OVERSEER—WHIPPINGS AND OTHER CRUELTIES.

THE SLAVE CABIN.

COTTON RAISING.

THE COTTON WORM.

THE COTTON HARVEST.

PREPARING COTTON FOR MARKET.

OTHER FARM PRODUCTS.

FARM IMPLEMENTS.

THE CLEARING OF NEW LAND.

COOKING FOR THE SLAVES.

CARDING AND SPINNING.

WEAVING—CLOTHES OF THE SLAVES.

SLAVE MOTHERS—CARE OF THE CHILDREN.

METHODS OF PUNISHMENT.

FOURTH OF JULY BARBECUE.

ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH.

RELIGIOUS MEETINGS OF THE SLAVES.

A NEIGHBORHOOD QUARREL

CHAPTER II. — SOCIAL AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SLAVERY.

REMOVAL TO MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

A NEW AND SPLENDID HOUSE.

THE NEW STYLE OF LIVING.

THE ADORNMENT OF THE GROUNDS.

THE GARDEN.

PROFUSION OF FLOWERS.

THE FRUIT ORCHARD.

I PRACTICE MEDICINE AMONG THE SLAVES.

A SWELL RECEPTION.

RELATIVES VISIT AT THE MANSION.

ONE OF THE VISITORS DISTRUSTS ME.

THE MADAM IN A RAGE.

THE MADAM'S SEVERITY.

A SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

MASTER'S NEW COTTON PLANTATION.

INCIDENTS.

LONGING FOR FREEDOM.

MY FIRST BREAK FOR FREEDOM.

MY SECOND RUNAWAY TRIP.

PREACHING TO THE SLAVES.

A FAMILY OF FREE PERSONS SOLD INTO SLAVERY.

MY MARRIAGE—BIRTH OF TWINS.

MADAM'S CRUELTY TO MY WIFE AND CHILDREN.

EFFORTS TO LEARN TO READ AND WRITE.

TOM STRIKES FOR LIBERTY AND GAINS IT.

NEWS OF TOM'S REACHING CANADA.

M'GEE EXPECTS TO CAPTURE TOM.

MAKING CLOTHES.

A SUPERSTITION.

MEMPHIS AND ITS COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE.

CHAPTER III. — SLAVERY AND THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.

BEGINNING OF THE WAR.

PETTY DISRESPECT TO THE EMBLEM OF THE UNION.

THE BATTLE OF SHILOH, APRIL 9, 1862.

MOURNING IN MASTER'S FAMILY.

ALARM OF THE MEMPHIS REBELS.

THE FAMILY FLEE FROM MEMPHIS.

I AM TAKEN TO BOLIVAR FARM.

CAPTURE OF A UNION TRADING BOAT.

BOSS TAKEN PRISONER.

MY THIRD EFFORT FOR FREEDOM.

REBELS BURN THEIR COTTON.

MY FOURTH RUNAWAY TRIP.

INCIDENTS.

UNION RAID AT MASTER'S FARM.

UNION SOLDIERS PASS THE PANOLA HOME.

HIDING VALUABLES FROM THE YANKEES.

DEATH TO RUNAWAY SLAVES.

SLAVES HUNG AND LEFT TO ROT AS A WARNING.

RUNAWAY SLAVE CAUGHT AND WHIPPED.

A HOME GUARD ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS HIMSELF.

SUBSTITUTES FOR COFFEE.

CHAPTER IV. — REBELLION WEAKENING—SLAVES' HOPES STRENGTHENING.

M'GEES SLAVES TAKEN TO ALABAMA.

M'GEE'S GREAT SCHEME.

M'GEE'S DEATH.

I MAKE SOME MONEY.

GOING BACK TO PANOLA.

INCIDENTS.

MY FIFTH STRIKE FOR FREEDOM IS A SUCCESS.

GOING BACK FOR OUR WIVES.

A HAZARDOUS TRIP.

TWO BRAVE MEN.

OUT OF BONDAGE AT LAST.

A WORD FOR MY OLD MASTER.

CHAPTER V. — FREEDOM AFTER SLAVERY.

COMING NORTH.

IN CANADA.

A CLEW TO MY BROTHER WILLIAM.

WORK IN CHICAGO.

ATTENDING NIGHT SCHOOL.

I SETTLE IN MILWAUKEE.

BEGIN BUSINESS FOR MYSELF IN A SMALL WAY.

MEETING RELATIVES OF MY OLD MASTER.

FINDING MY BROTHER WILLIAM.

GROWTH OF THE LAUNDRY BUSINESS.

EMPLOYED AS A NURSE.

A TRIP SOUTH.

I MAKE NURSING MY REGULAR BUSINESS.