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 CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

AUTHOR'S BIRTH.

Author's place of birth — Description of country — Its inhabitants — Gen- ealogical trees — Method of counting time in slave districts — Date of author's birth — Names of grandparents — Their cabin — Home with them — Slave practice of separating mothers from their children — Author's recollections of his mother — Who was his father?, 25

CHAPTER H.

REMOVAL FROM GRANDMOTHER'S.

Author's early home — Its charms — Author's ignorance of "old master" — His gradual perception of the truth concerning him — His relations to Col. Edward Lloyd — Author's removal to "old master's" home — His journey thence — His separation from his grandmother — His grief. . .28

CHAPTER III.

TROUBLES OF CHILDHOOD.

Col. Lloyd's plantation — Aunt Katy — Her Gruelty and ill-nature — Capt. Anthony's partiality to Aunt Katy— Allowance of food — Author's hunger — Unexpected rescue by his mother — The reproof of Aunt Katy — Sleep — A slave-mother's love — Author's inheritance — His mother's acquirements — Her death 33

CHAPTER IV.

A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE SLAVE PLANTATION.

Home plantation of Colonel Lloyd — Its isolation — Its industries — The slave rule — Power of overseers — Author finds some enjoyment — Natural scenery — Sloop " Sally Lloyd" — "Wind mill — Slave quarter — "Old master's" house — Stables, store houses, etc., etc. — The great house — Its surroundings — Lloyd Burial-place — Superstition of slaves — Colonel Lloyd's wealth — Negro politeness — Doctor Copper — Captain Anthony — His family — Master Daniel Lloyd — His brothers — Social etiquette 39

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