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Contents.

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• Childhood 11

• The New Master and Mistress 17

• The Slaves' New Year's Day 25

• The Slave who dared to feel like a Man 28

• The Trials of Girlhood 44

• The Jealous Mistress 49

• The Lover 58

• What Slaves are taught to think of the North 67

• Sketches of neighboring Slaveholders 71

• A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life 82

• The new Tie to Life 90

• Fear of Insurrection 97

• The Church and Slavery 105

• Another Link to Life 117

• Continued Persecutions 122

• Scenes at the Plantation 131

• The Flight 145

• Months of Peril 150

• The Children Sold 160

• New Perils 167

• The Loophoie of Retreat 173

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• Christmas Festivities 179

• Still in Prison 183

• The Candidate for Congress 189

• Competition in Cunning 193

• Important Era in my Brother's Life 201

• New Destination for the Children 207

• Aunt Nancy 217

• Preparations for Escape 224

• Northward Bound 237

• Incidents in Philadelphia 242

• The Meeting of Mother and Daughter 249

• A Home Found 254

• The Old Enemy again 258

• Prejudice against Color 264

• The Hair-breadth Escape 268

• A Visit to England 275

• Renewed Invitation to go South 279

• The Confession 282

• The Fugitive Slave Law 285

• Free at Last 293

• Appendix 304