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ISBN-13: | 9781974996148 |
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Publisher: | Dreamscape Media |
Publication date: | 02/14/2017 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 724 |
File size: | 2 MB |
Age Range: | 13 - 18 Years |
About the Author
Hometown:
Tuckahoe, MarylandDate of Birth:
1818Date of Death:
February 20, 1895Place of Death:
Washington, D.C.Read an Excerpt
CHAPTER III. TROUBLES OF CHILDHOOD. Col. Lloyd's plantationAunt KatyHer cruelty and ill-natureCapt. Anthony's partiality to Aunt KatyAllowance of foodHungerUnexpected rescue by his motherThe reproof of Aunt KatySleepA slave - mother's loveHis inheritanceHis mother's acquirementsHer death. ONCE established on the home plantation of Col. LloydI was with the children there, left to the tender mercies of Aunt Katy, a slave woman who was to my master, what he was to Col. Lloyd. Disposing of us in classes or sizes, he left to Aunt Katy all the minor details concerning our management. She was a woman who never allowed herself to act greatly within the limits of delegated power, no matter how broad that authority might be. Ambitious of old master's favour, ill-tempered and cruel by nature, she found in her present position an ample field for the exercise of her ill-omened qualities. She had a strong hold upon old master, for she was a first-rate cook, and very industrious. She was therefore greatly favoured by himand as one mark of his favour she was the only mother who was permitted to retain her children around her, and even to these, her own children, she was often fiendish in her brutality. Cruel, however, as she sometimes was to her own children, she was not destitute of maternal feeling, and in her instinct to satisfy their demands for food, she was often guilty of starving me and the other children. Want of food was my chief trouble during my first summer here. Captain Anthony, instead of allowing a given quantity of food to each slave, committed the allowance for all to Aunt Katy, to be divided byher, after cooking, amongst us. The allowance consisted of coarse corn meal, not very abundant, and which by passing through Aunt Katy's hands, became more slender s...
Table of Contents
Introduction [to the 1892 Edition] | 3 | |
Part 1 | ||
1 | Author's Birth | 11 |
2 | Removal from Grandmother's | 13 |
3 | Troubles of Childhood | 16 |
4 | A General Survey of the Slave Plantation | 18 |
5 | A Slaveholder's Character | 25 |
6 | A Child's Reasoning | 28 |
7 | Luxuries at the Great House | 34 |
8 | Characteristics of Overseers | 39 |
9 | Change of Location | 43 |
10 | Learning to Read | 47 |
11 | Growing in Knowledge | 50 |
12 | Religious Nature Awakened | 56 |
13 | The Vicissitudes of Slave Life | 60 |
14 | Experience in St. Michaels | 66 |
15 | Covey, the Negro Breaker | 75 |
16 | Another Pressure of the Tyrant's Vise | 84 |
17 | The Last Flogging | 90 |
18 | New Relations and Duties | 98 |
19 | The Runaway Plot | 105 |
20 | Apprenticeship Life | 122 |
21 | Escape from Slavery | 130 |
Part 2 | ||
1 | Escape from Slavery | 137 |
2 | Life as a Freeman | 141 |
3 | Introduced to the Abolitionists | 151 |
4 | Recollections of Old Friends | 154 |
5 | One Hundred Conventions | 159 |
6 | Impressions Abroad | 164 |
7 | Triumphs and Trials | 184 |
8 | John Brown and Mrs. Stowe | 193 |
9 | Increasing Demands of the Slave Power | 209 |
10 | The Beginning of the End | 225 |
11 | Secession and War | 240 |
12 | Hope for the Nation | 253 |
13 | Vast Changes | 270 |
14 | Living and Learning | 290 |
15 | Weighed in the Balance | 296 |
16 | "Time Makes All Things Even" | 320 |
17 | Incidents and Events | 330 |
18 | "Honor to Whom Honor" | 340 |
19 | Retrospection | 346 |
Appendix | 351 | |
Part 3 | ||
1 | Later Life | 375 |
2 | A Grand Occasion | 379 |
3 | Doubts as to Garfield's Course | 383 |
4 | Recorder of Deeds | 386 |
5 | President Cleveland's Administration | 390 |
6 | The Supreme Court Decision | 395 |
7 | Defeat of James G. Blaine | 405 |
8 | European Tour | 407 |
9 | Continuation of European Tour | 411 |
10 | The Campaign of 1888 | 434 |
11 | Administration of President Harrison | 437 |
12 | Minister to Haiti | 439 |
13 | Continued Negotiations for the Mole St. Nicolas | 446 |
Annotated Bibliography | 455 | |
Index | 458 |