Table of Contents

Front Matter

The Author's Childhood
The Author Removed from His First Home
The Author's Parentage
A General Survey of the Slave Plantation
Gradual Initiation into the Mysteries of Slavery
Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd's Plantation
Life in the Great House
A Chapter of Horrors
Personal Treatment of the Author
Life in Baltimore
"A Change Came o'er the Spirit of My Dream"
Religious Nature Awakened
The Vicissitudes of Slave Life
Experience in St. Michael's
Covey, the Negro Breaker
Another Pressure of the Tyrant's Vice
The Last Flogging
New Relations and Duties
The Runaway Plot
Apprenticeship Life
My Escape from Slavery
Liberty Attained
Introduced to the Abolitionists
Twenty-One Months in Great Britain
Various Incidents
Extracts from Speeches, etc.