| I. |
| Poplar Farm and its occupants. Southern Characteristics. Coon-Hunting and its results. Sunny side of Slave life on the Plantation. |
| II. |
| The Religious Teaching at Poplar Farm. Rev. Mr. Pinchen. A Model Southern Preacher. Religious Influence among the Southerners of the olden time. Genuine negro wit. |
| III. |
| A Southern country Doctor. Ancient mode of “pulling teeth.” Dinkie the King of the Voudoos. |
| IV. |
| The Parson and the Slave Trader. Slave life. Jumping the Broomstick. Plantation humor. |
| V. |
| An attempt to introduce Northern ideas. The new Plough. The Washing-Machine. Cheese-making. |
| VI. |
| Southern Amusements,—Wit and Humor. Superstition. Fortune-Telling in the olden time. |
| VII. |
| The Goopher King—his dealings with the Devil; he is feared by Whites and Blacks. How he mastered the Overseer. Hell exhibited in the Barn. |
| VIII. |
| Slave-Hunting. The Bloodhounds on the Track. The poor “white Trash.” A Sunday Meeting. A characteristic Sermon by one of their number. |
| IX. |
| Old-Fashioned Corn-Shucking. Plantation Songs: “Shuck that corn before you eat” an’ “Have that possum nice and sweet.” Christmas Holidays. |
| X. |
| The mysterious, veiled Lady. The white Slave Child. The beautiful Quadroon,—her heroic death. The Slave Trader and his Victim. Lola, the white Slave,—the Law’s Victim. |
| XI. |
| The introduction of the Cotton Gin, and its influence on the Price of Slaves. Great rise in Slave property. The great Southern Slave Trader. How a man got flogged when intended for another. |
| XII. |
| New Orleans in the olden time. A Congo Dance. Visiting the Angels, and chased by the Devil. A live Ghost. |
| XIII. |
| The Slave’s Escape. He is Captured, and again Escapes. How he outwitted the Slave-Catchers. Quaker Wit and Humor. |
| XIV. |
| The Free colored people of the South before the Rebellion. Their hard lot. Attempt to Enslave them. Re-opening of the African Slave Trade. Sentiments of distinguished Southern Fire-Eaters. |
| XV. |
| Southern control of the National Government. Their contempt for Northerners. Insult to Northern Statesmen. |
| XVI. |
| Proclamation of Emancipation. The last night of Slavery. Waiting for the Hour. Music from the Banjo on the Wall. Great rejoicing. Hunting friends. A Son known, Twenty Years after separation, by the Mark on the bottom of his Foot. |
| XVII. |
| Negro equality. Blacks must Paddle their own Canoe. The War of Races. |
| XVIII. |
| Blacks enjoying a Life of Freedom. Alabama negro Cotton-Growers. Negro street Peddlers; their music and their humors. A man with One Hundred Children. His experience. |
| XIX. |
| The whites of Tennessee,—their hatred to the negro,—their antecedents. Blacks in Southern Legislatures,—their brief Power. Re-converting a Daughter from her new Religion. Prayer and Switches do the work. |
| XX. |
| The Blacks. Their old customs still hang upon them. Revival Meetings. A characteristic Sermon. Costly churches for the Freedmen. Education. Return of a Son from College. |
| XXI. |
| The Freedmen’s Savings Bank. Confidence of the Blacks in the Institution. All thought it the hope for the negro of the South. The failure of the Bank and its bad influence. |
| XXII. |
| Old Virginia. The F. F. V’s of the olden times,—ex-millionaires carrying their own Baskets of Provisions from Market. John Jaspar, the eloquent negro Preacher; his Sermon, “The Sun does Move.” A characteristic Prayer. |
| XXIII. |
| Norfolk Market. Freedmen costermongers. Musical Hawkers. The Strawberry Woman. Humorous incidents. |
| XXIV. |
| The Education of the Blacks. Freedmen’s schools, colleges. White Teachers in Colored schools. Schools in Tennessee. Black pupils not allowed to Speak to White Teachers in the street. |
| XXV. |
| Oppressive Laws against Colored People. Revival of the Whipping Post. The Ku-Klux—their operations in Tennessee. Lynch Law triumphant. |
| XXVI. |
| Colored men as Servants,—their Improvidence. The love of Dress. Personal effort for Education. |
| XXVII. |
| Need of Combination. Should follow the Example set by the Irish, Germans, Italians, and Chinese who come to this country. Should patronize their own Race. Cadet Whittaker. Need of more Pluck. |
| XXVIII. |
| Total Abstinence from Intoxicating Drinks a necessary object for Self-Elevation. Intemperance and its Evils. Literary Associations. The Exodus. Emigration a Necessity. Should follow the Example of other Races. Professions and Trades needed. |
GREAT HOUSE AT POPLAR FARM.
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