Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman
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- Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
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1. AND FORTY YEARS A FREEMAN;2. PREFACE.3. CHAPTER I. — SLAVE LIFE ON THE PLANTATION.4. CHAPTER II. — AT THE GREAT HOUSE.5. CHAPTER III. — HORSE-RACING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.6. CHAPTER IV. — JOURNEY TO OUR NEW HOME IN NEW YORK.7. CHAPTER V. — INCIDENTS AT SODUS BAY.8. CHAPTER VI. — REMOVAL FROM SODUS TO BATH.9. CHAPTER VII. — DUELING.10. CHAPTER VIII. — HORSE-RACING AND GENERAL TRAINING.11. CHAPTER IX. — DEATH BED AND BRIDAL SCENES.12. CHAPTER X. — HIRED OUT TO A NEW MASTER.13. CHAPTER XI. — THOUGHTS ON FREEDOM.14. CHAPTER XII. — CAPT. HELM—DIVORCE—KIDNAPPING.15. CHAPTER XIII. — LOCATE IN THE VILLAGE OF ROCHESTER.16. CHAPTER XIV. — INCIDENTS IN ROCHESTER AND VICINITY.17. CHAPTER XV. — SAD REVERSES OF CAPT. HELM.18. CHAPTER XVI. — BRITISH EMANCIPATION OF SLAVERY.19. CHAPTER XVII. — ORATION—TERMINATION OF SLAVERY.20. CHAPTER XVIII. — CONDITION OF FREE COLORED PEOPLE.21. CHAPTER XIX. — PERSECUTION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE.22. CHAPTER XX. — REMOVAL TO CANADA.23. CHAPTER XXI. — ROUGHING IT IN THE WILDS OF CANADA.24. CHAPTER XXII. — NARROW ESCAPE OF A SMUGGLER.25. CHAPTER XXIII. — NARRATIVE OF TWO FUGITIVES FROM VIRGINIA.26. CHAPTER XXIV. — PLEASANT RE-UNION OF OLD AND TRIED FRIENDS.27. CHAPTER XXV. — PRIVATE LOSSES AND PRIVATE DIFFICULTIES.28. CHAPTER XXVI. — INCIDENTS AND PECULIARITIES OF THE INDIANS.29. CHAPTER XXVII. — OUR DIFFICULTIES WITH ISRAEL LEWIS.30. CHAPTER XXVIII. — DESPERATION OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE.31. CHAPTER XXIX. — A NARROW ESCAPE FROM MY ENEMIES.32. CHAPTER XXX. — DEATH OF B. PAUL, AND RETURN OF HIS BROTHER.33. CHAPTER XXXI. — MY FAMILY RETURN TO ROCHESTER.34. CHAPTER XXXII. — THE LAND AGENT AND THE SQUATTER.35. CHAPTER XXXIII. — CHARACTER AND DEATH OF I. LEWIS.36. CHAPTER XXXIV. — MY RETURN TO ROCHESTER.37. CHAPTER XXXV. — BISHOP BROWN—DEATH OF MY DAUGHTER.38. CHAPTER XXXVI. — CELEBRATION OF THE FIRST OF AUGUST.39. CHAPTER XXXVII. — CONCLUSION.40. CORRESPONDENCE.