CONTENTS.



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CHAPTER L-ON THE RoAD.-Arrival at Georgetown.-The
  Village Inn.-Nocturnal Adventures.-My African Driver.-
  His Strange History-Genuine Negro Songs.-Arrival at
  Bucksville . ............................................  10
CHAPTER II.-WAYSiDE HOSPITALITY.-A Strange Meeting.
  -A Well Ordered Plantation.-A Thunder-storm.-A New
  Guest.-The Hidden Springs of Secession Exposed.-On the
  Way Again.-Intelligence of the Negro.-Renconter with a
  Secessionist ........................................... 30
CHAPTER III.-CROSSING THE Ruxe. - The Black Declines
  His Freedomn-His Reasons for so Doing.-A "native " Abo-
  litionist.-Swimming the Run.-Black Spirits and White.-
  Shelter ...............................................566
CHAPTER IV.-PooR WHiTEs.-The Mills House-South Car-
  olina Clay-Eaters.-Political Discussion.-President Lincoln a
  Negro.-" Three in a Bed and one in the Middle."-250 re-
  ward.-A Secret League .................................. 69
CHAPTER V.-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 ...................... 94
CHAPTER VI-THE PLANTERS FnrnY.-The old Nurse.-
Her Story.-A White Slave-Woman's Opinion of Slavery.-
The Stables.-The Negro-Quarters.-Sunday Exercises.-The
Taking of Moye ......................................... 127
CHAPTER VII-PLANTATION Discup'rsE.-The " Ole Cabin."
-The Mode of Negro Punishment.-The " Thumb-Screw."-
A Ministering AngeL-A Negro TriaL-A Rebellion.-A Tur-
pentine Dealer-A Boston Dray on its Travels ............. 150
CHAPTER VIII.-THE NEGRO HUNTER-Young Democrats.-
Political Discussion.-Startling Statistics.-A Freed Negro... 169