This edition features
• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
Early Life in Virginia--Example of Pious Parents.
CHAPTER II.
Apprenticed to the Shoe-making--Learns housework--Intemperance--"A negro can't be trusted"--Learning how to write and cipher.
CHAPTER III.
Religious Experience--Conviction and Conversion.
CHAPTER IV.
Marriage--License to Preach--Purchase of Freedom--Call to Baltimore.
CHAPTER V.
Experience in Baltimore--Education--Purchase of a Wife and two Children--Great Distress of Mind--Generous Assistance--Church Matters.
CHAPTER VI.
A New Movement in Baltimore--Erection of a Meeting House for the African Baptist Church--Heavy Indebtedness--Account of the Enterprise.
CHAPTER VII.
Account of a Visit to the northern Cities--True Friends.
CHAPTER VIII.
Conclusion--Object of this Book.
