CONTENTS.

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  • On The Road.

    Arrival at Georgetown.—The Village Inn.—Nocturnal Adventures.—My African Driver.—His Strange History.—Genuine Negro Songs.—Arrival at Bucksville.

  • Wayside Hospitality.

    A Strange Meeting.—A Well Ordered Plantation.—A Thunder-storm.—A Guest.—The Hidden Springs or Secession Exposed.—On the Way Again.—Intelligence of the Negro.—Renconter with a Secessionist.

  • Crossing the Runs.

    The Black Declines His Freedom.—His Reasons for so Doing.—A "native" Abolitionist.—Swimming the Run.—Black Spirits and White.—Shelter.

  • Poor Whites.

    The Mills House.—South Carolina Clay-Eaters.—Political Discussion.—President Lincoln a Negro.—"Three in a Bed and one in the Middle."—$250 reward.—A Secret League.

  • On the Plantation.

    The Planter's Dwelling.—His House-Keeper.—The Process of Turpentine Making.—Loss to Carolina by Secession.—The Dying Boy.—The Story of Jim.—A Northern Man with Southern Principles.—Sam Murdered.—Pursuit of the Overseer.

  • The Planter's Family.

    The old Nurse.—Her Story.—A White Slave-Woman's Opinion of Slavery.—The Stables.—The Negro-Quarters.—Sunday Exercises.—The Taking of Moye.

  • Plantation Discipline.

    The "Ole Cabin."—The Mode of Negro Punishment.—The "Thumb-Screw."—A Ministering Angel.—A Negro Trial.—A Rebellion.—A Turpentine Dealer.—A Boston Dray on its Travels.

  • The Negro Hunter.

    Young Democrats.—Political Discussion.—Startling Statistics.—A Freed Negro.

  • The Country Church.

    Its Description.—The "Corn-Cracker."—The News.—Strange Disclosure.

  • The Negro Funeral.

    The Burial Ground.—A Negro Sermon.—The Appearance of Juley.—The Colonel's Heartlessness.—The Octoroon's Explanation of it.—The Escape of Moye.

  • The Pursuit.

    The Start.—"Carolina Race-Horses."—A Race.—We Lose the Trail.—A Tornado.—A Narrow Escape.

  • The Yankee Schoolmistress.

    Our Ne Apparel.—"Kissing Goes by Favor."—Schools at the South.

  • The Railway Station.

    The Village.—A Drunken Yankee.—A Narrow Escape.—Andy Jones.—A Light-Wood Fire.—The Colonel's Departure.

  • The Barbacue.

    The Camp-Ground.—The Stump-Speaker.—A Stump Speech.—Almost a Fight.—The Manner of Roasting the Ox.

  • The Return.

    Arrival at the Plantation.—Disappearance of Juley and her child.—The Old Preacher's Story.—Scene Between the Master and the Slave.

  • "One More Unfortunate."

    Attempted Whipping of Jim.—Appearance of the "Corn-Cracker."—"Drowned.—Drowned."

  • The Small Planter.

    His House.—His Wife.—His Negroes.—A Juvenile Darky.—Lazarus in "Ab'ram's Buzzum."—White and Black Labor Compared.—The Mysteries of "Rosum" manufacture.

  • The Burial of Jule.

    "He Tempers the Wind to the Shorn Lamb."—The Funeral.

  • Homeward Bound.

    Colonel A—— Again.—Parting with Scipio.—Why this Book was Written.

  • Conclusion.

    The Author's Explanations.—Last News from Moye and Scipio.—Affecting Letter from Andy Jones.—The End.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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