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Chapter 1 Introductory---Ancestry---The Northup Family---Birth and Parentage---Mintus Northup---Marriage with Anne Hampton---Good Resolutions---Champlain Canal---Rafting Excursion to Canada---Farming---The Violin---Cooking---Removal to Saratoga---Parker and Perry---Slaves and Slavery---The Children---The Beginning of Sorrow |
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Chapter 2 The Two Strangers---The Circus Company---Departure from Saratoga---Ventriloquism and Legerdemain---Journey to New-York---Free Papers---Brown and Hamilton---The Haste to Reach the Circus---Arrival in Washington---Funeral of Harrison---The Sudden Sickness---The Torment of Thirst---The Receding Light---Insensibility---Chains and Darkness |
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Chapter 3 Painful Meditations---James H. Burch---Williams' Slave Pen in Washington---The Lackey, Radburn---Assert My Freedom---The Anger of the Trader---The Paddle and Cat-O'-Ninetails---The Whipping---New Acquaintances---Ray, Williams, and Randall---Arrival of Little Emily and Her Mother in the Pen---Maternal Sorrows---The Story of Eliza |
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Chapter 4 Eliza's Sorrows---Preparation to Embark---Driven through the Streets of Washington---Hail, Columbia---The Tomb of Washington---Clem Ray---The Breakfast on the Steamer---The Happy Birds---Aquia Creek---Fredericksburgh---Arrival in Richmond---Goodin and His Slave Pen---Robert, of Cincinnati---David and His Wife---Mary and Lethe---Clem's Return---His Subsequent Escape to Canada---The Brig Orleans---James H. Burch |
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Chapter 5 Arrival at Norfolk---Frederick and Maria---Arthur, the Freeman---Appointed Steward---Jim, Cuffee, and Jenny---The Storm---Bahama Banks---The Calm---The Conspiracy---The Long Boat---The Small-Pox---Death of Robert---Manning, the Sailor---The Meeting in the Forecastle---The Letter---Arrival at New-Orleans---Arthur's Rescue---Theophllus Freeman, The Consignee---Piatt---First Night in the New-Orleans Slave Pen |
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Chapter 6 Freeman's Industry---Cleanliness and Clothes---Exercising in the Show Room---The Dance---Bob, the Fiddler---Arrival of Customers---Slaves Examined---The Old Gentleman of New-Orleans---Sale of David, Caroline and Lethe---Parting of Randall and Eliza---Small Pox---The Hospital---Recovery and Return to Freeman's Slave Pen---the Purchaser of Eliza, Harry and Platt---Eliza's Agony on Parting from Little Emily |
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Chapter 7 The Steamboat Rodolph---Departure from New-Orleans---William Ford---Arrival at Alexandria, on Red River---Resolutions---The Great Pine Woods---Wild Cattle---Martin's Summer Residence---The Texas Road---Arrival at Master Ford's---Rose---Mistress Ford---Sally, and Her Children---John, The Cook---Walter, Sam, and Antony---The Mills on Indian Creek---Sabbath Days---Sam's Conversion---The Profit of Kindness---Rafting---Adam Taydem, The Little White Man---Cascalla and His Tribe---The Indian Ball---John M. Tibeats---The Storm Approaching |
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Chapter 8 Ford's Embarrassments---The Sale to Tibeats---The Chattel Mortgage----Mistress Ford's Plantation on Bayou Bœuf--- Description of the Latter---Ford's Brother-in-Law, Peter Tanner---Meeting with Eliza---She Still Mourns for Her Children---Ford's Overseer, Chapin---Tibeat's Abuse---The Keg of Nails---The First Fight with Tibeats---His Discomfiture and Castigation---The Attempt To Hang Me---Chapin's Interference and Speech---Unhappy Reflections---Abrupt Departure of Tibeats, Cook and Ramsay---Lawson and the Brown Mule---Message to the Pine Woods |
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Chapter 9 The Hot Sun---Yet Bound---The Cords Sink Into My Flesh---Chapin's Uneasiness---Speculation---Rachel, and Her Cup of Water---Suffering Increases---The Happiness of Slavery---Arrival of Ford---He Cuts the Cords Which Bind Me, and Takes the Rope from My Neck---Misery---The Gathering of the Slaves in Eliza's Cabin---Their Kindness---Rachel Repeats the Occurrences of the Day---Lawson Entertains His Companions with An Account of His Ride---Chapin's Apprehensions of Tibeats---Hired To Peter Tanner---Peter Expounds the Scriptures---Description of the Stocks |
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Chapter 10 Return To Tibeats---Impossibility of Pleasing Him---He Attacks Me with a Hatchet---The Struggle Over the Broad Axe---The Temptation To Murder Him---Escape Across the Plantation---Observations from the Fence---Tibeats Approaches, Followed By the Hounds---They Take My Track---Their Loud Yells---They Almost Overtake Me---I Reach the Water---The Hounds Confused---Moccasin Snakes---Alligators---Night in the "Great Pacoudrie Swamp"---The Sounds of Life---North-West Course---Emerge Into the Pine Woods---The Slave and His Young Master---Arrival at Ford's---Food and Rest |
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Chapter 11 The Mistress' Garden---The Crimson and Golden Fruit---Orange and Pomegranate Trees---Return To Bayou Boeuf---Master Ford's Remarks on the Way---The Meeting with Tibeats---His Account of the Chase---Ford Censures His Brutality---Arrival At the Plantation---Astonishment of the Slaves on Seeing Me---The Anticipated Flogging---Kentucky John---Mr. Eldret, the Planter---Eldret s Sam---Trip To the "Big Cane Brake"---The Tradition of "Sutton's Field"---Forest Trees---Gnats and Mosquitos---The Arrival of Black Women in the Big Cane---Lumber Women---Sudden Appearance of Tibeats---His Provoking Treatment---Visit To Bayou Bœuf---The Slave Pass---Southern Hospitality---The Last of Eliza---Sale To Edwin Epps |
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Chapter 12 Personal Appearance of Epps---Epps, Drunk and Sober---A Glimpse of His History---Cotton Growing---The Mode of Ploughing and Preparing Ground---of Planting---of Hoeing, of Picking, of Treating Raw Hands---The Difference in Cotton Pickers---Patsey a Remarkable one---Tasked According To Ability---Beauty of a Cotton Field---The Slave's Labors---Fear on Approaching the Gin-House---Weighing---"Chores"---Cabin Life---The Corn Mill---The Uses of the Gourd---Fear of Oversleeping---Fear Continually---Mode of Cultivating Corn---Sweet Potatoes---Fertility of the Soil---Fattening Hogs---Preserving Bacon---Raising Cattle---Shooting-Matches---Garden Products---Flowers and Verdure |
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Chapter 13 The Curious Axe-Helve---Symptoms of Approaching Illness---Continue To Decline---The Whip Ineffectual---Confined To the Cabin---Visit By Dr. Wines---Partial Recovery---Failure at Cotton Picking---What May Be Heard on Epps' Plantation---Lashes Graduated---Epps in a Whipping Mood---Epps in a Dancing Mood---Description of the Dance---Loss of Rest No Excuse---Epps' Characteristics---Jim Burns Removal from Huff Power To Bayou Bœuf---Description of Uncle Abram; of Wiley; of Aunt Phebe; of Bob, Henry, and Edward; of Patsey; with a Genealogical Account of Each---Something of Their Past History, and Peculiar Characteristics---Jealousy and Lust---Patsey, the Victim |
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Chapter 14 Destruction of the Cotton Crop in 1845---Demand For Laborers in St. Mary's Parish---Sent Thither in a Drove---The Order of the March---The Grand Coteau---Hired To Judge Turner on Bayou Salle---Appointed Driver in His Sugar House---Sunday Services Slave Furniture, How Obtained---The Party at Yarney's in Centreville---Good Fortune---The Captain of the Steamer---His Refusal To Secrete Me---Return To Bayou Bœuf---Sight of Tibeats---Patsey's Sorrows---Tumult and Contention---Hunting the Coon and Opossum---The Cunning of the Latter---The Lean Condition of the Slave---Description of the Fish Trap---The Murder of the Man from Natchez---Epps Challenged By Marshall---The Influence of Slavery---The Love of Freedom |
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Chapter 15 Labors on Sugar Plantations---The Mode of Planting Cane---of Hoeing Cane---Cane Ricks---Cutting Cane---Description of the Cane Knife---Winrowing---Preparing For Succeeding Crops---Description of Hawkins' Sugar Mill on Bayou Bœuf---The Christmas Holidays---The Carnival Season of the Children of Bondage---The Christmas Supper---Red, the Favorite Color---The Violin, and the Consolation It Afforded---The Christmas Dance---Lively, the Coquette---Sam Roberts, and His Rivals---Slave Songs---Southern Life As It Is---Three Days in the Year---The System of Marriage---Uncle Abram's Contempt of Matrimony |
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Chapter 16 Overseers---How They Are Armed and Accompanied---The Homicide---His Execution at Marksville---Slave-Drivers---Appointed Driver on Removing To Bayou Boeuf---Practice Makes Perfect---Epps' Attempt To Cut Platt's Throat---The Escape from Him---Protected By the Mistress---Forbids Reading and Writing---Obtain a Sheet of Paper After Nine Years' Effort---The Letter---Armsby, the Mean White---Partially Confide in Him---His Treachery---Epps' Suspicions---How They Were Quieted---Burning the Letter---Armsby Leaves the Bayou---Disappointment and Despair |
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Chapter 17 Wiley Disregards the Counsels of Aunt Phebe and Uncle Abram, and Is Caught By The Patrollers---The Organization and Duties of the Latter---Wiley Runs Away---Speculations in Regard To Him---His Unexpected Return---His Capture on Red River, and Confinement in Alexandria Jail---Discovered By Joseph B. Roberts---Subduing Dogs in Anticipation of Escape---The Fugitives in the Great Pine Woods---Captured By Adam Taydem and the Indians---Augustus Killed By Dogs---Nelly, Eldret's Slave Woman---The Story of Celeste---The Concerted Movement---Lew Cheney, the Traitor---The Idea of Insurrection |
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Chapter 18 O'Niel, the Tanner---Conversation with Aunt Phebe Overheard---Epps in the Tanning Business---Stabbing of Uncle Abram---The Ugly Wound---Epps Is Jealous---Patsey Is Missing---Her Return from Shaw's---Harriet, Shaw's Black Wife---Epps Enraged---Patsey Denies His Charges---She Is Tied Down Naked to Four Stakes---The Inhuman Flogging---Flaying of Patsey---The Beauty of the Day---The Bucket of Salt Water---The Dress Stiff with Blood---Patsey Grows Melancholy---Her Idea of God and Eternity---of Heaven and Freedom---The Effect of Slave-Whipping---Epps' Oldest Son---"The Child Is Father To the Man." |
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Chapter 19 Avery, of Bayou Rouge---Peculiarity of Dwellings---Epps Builds a New House---Bass, the Carpenter---His Noble Qualities---His Personal Appearance and Eccentricities---Bass and Epps Discuss the Question of Slavery---Epps' Opinion of Bass---I Make Myself Known To Him---Our Conversation---His Surprise---The Midnight Meeting on the Bayou Bank---Bass' Assurances---Declares War Against Slavery---Why I Did Not Disclose My History---Bass Writes Letters---Copy of His Letter To Messrs. Parker and Perry---The Fever of Suspense---Disappointments---Bass Endeavors To Cheer Me---My Faith in Him |
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Chapter 20 Bass Faithful To His Word---His Arrival on Christmas Eve---The Difficulty of Obtaining An Interview---The Meeting in the Cabin---Non-Arrival of the Letter---Bass Announces His Intention to Proceed North---Christmas---Conversation Between Epps and Bass---Young Mistress McCoy, The Beauty of Bayou Bœuf---The "Ne Plus Ultra" of Dinners---Music and Dancing---Presence of the Mistress---Her Exceeding Beauty---The Last Slave Dance---William Pierce---Oversleep Myself---The Last Whipping---Despondency---The Cold Morning---Epps' Threats---The Passing Carriage---Strangers Approaching through the Cotton-Field---Last Hour on Bayou Bœuf |
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Chapter 21 The Letter Reaches Saratoga---Is Forwarded To Anne---Is Laid Before Henry B. Northup---The Statute of May 14, 1840---Its Provisions---Anne's Memorial To the Governor---The Affidavits Accompanying It---Senator Soule's Letter---Departure of the Agent Appointed By the Governor---Arrival at Marksville---The Hon. John P. Waddill---The Conversation on New-York Politics---It Suggests a Fortunate Idea---The Meeting with Bass---The Secret Out---Legal Proceedings Instituted---Departure of Northup and the Sheriff from Marksville For Bayou Bœuf---Arrangements on the Way---Reach Epps' Plantation---Discover His Slaves in the Cotton Field---The Meeting---The Farewell |
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Chapter 22 Arrival In New-Orleans---Glimpse of Freeman---Genois, the Recorder---His Description of Solomon---Reach Charleston---Interrupted by Custom House officers---Pass through Richmond---Arrival in Washington---Burch Arrested---Shekels and Thorn---Their Testimony---Burch Acquitted---Arrest of Solomon---Burch Withdraws the Complaint---The Higher Tribunal---Departure from Washington---Arrival at Sandy Hill---Old Friends and Familiar Scenes---Proceed to Glens Falls---Meeting with Anne, Margaret and Elizabeth---Solomon Northup Staunton---Incidents---Conclusion |
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| Appendix |
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| About the Author |
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