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Table of Contents
Ancestry --
The Northup Family --
Birth and Parentage --
Mintus Northup --
Marriage with Anne Hampton --
Good Resolutions --
Champlain Canal --
Rafting Excursion to Canada --
Farming --
The Violin --
Cooking --
Removal to Saratoga --
Parker and Perry --
Slaves and Slavery --
The Children --
The Beginning of Sorrow --
The two Strangers --
The Circus Company --
Departure from Saratoga --
Ventriloquism and Legerdemain --
Journey to New-York --
Free Papers --
Brown and Hamilton --
The haste to reach the Circus --
Arrival in Washington --
Funeral of Harrison --
The Sudden Sickness --
The Torment of Thirst --
The Receding Light --
Insensibility --
Chains and Darkness --
Painful Meditations --
James H. Burch --
Williams' Slave Pen in Washington --
The Lackey, Radburn --
Assert my Freedom --
The Anger of the Trader --
The Paddle and Cat-o'-nine-tails --
The Whipping --
New Acquaintances --
Ray, Williams, and Randall --
Arrival of Little Emily and her Mother in the Pen --
Maternal Sorrows --
The Story of Eliza --
Eliza's Sorrows --
Preparation to Embark --
Driven Through the Streets of Washington --
Hail, Columbia --
The Tomb of Washington --
Clem Ray --
The Breakfast on the Steamer --
The happy Birds --
Aquia Creek --
Fredericksburgh --
Arrival in Richmond --
Goodin and his Slave Pen --
Robert, of Cincinnati --
David and his Wife --
Mary and Lethe --
Clem's Return --
His subsequent Escape to Canada --
The Brig Orleans --
James H. Burch --
Arrival at Norfolk --
Frederick and Maria --
Arthur, the Freeman --
Appointed Steward --
Jim, Cuffee, and Jenny --
The Storm --
Bahama Banks --
The Calm --
The Conspiracy --
The Long Boat --
The Small-Pox --
Death of Robert --
Manning, the Sailor --
The Meeting in the Forecastle --
The Letter --
Arrival at New-Orleans --
Arthur's Rescue --
Theophilus Freeman, the Consignee --
Platt --
First Night in the New-Orleans Slave Pen --
Freeman's Industry --
Cleanliness and Clothes --
Exercising in the Show Room --
The Dance --
Bob, the Fiddler --
Arrival of Customers --
Slaves Examined --
The Old Gentleman of New-Orleans --
Sale of David, Caroline, and Lethe --
Parting of Randall and Eliza --
Small-Pox --
The Hospital --
Recovery and Return to Freeman's Slave Pen --
The Purchaser of Eliza, Harry, and Platt --
Eliza's Agony on Parting from Little Emily --
The Steamboat Rodolph --
Departure from New-Orleans --
William Ford --
Arrival at Alexandria, on Red River --
Resolutions --
The Great Pine Woods --
Wild Cattle --
Martin's Summer Residence --
The Texas Road --
Arrival at Master Ford's --
Rose --
Mistress Ford --
Sally and her Children --
John, the Cook --
Walter, Sam, and Antony --
The Mills on Indian Creek --
Sabbath Days --
Sam's Conversion --
The Profit of kindness --
Rafting --
Adam Taydem, the Little White Man --
Cascalla and his Tribe --
The Indian Ball --
John M. Tibeats --
The Storm approaching --
Ford's Embarrassments --
The Sale to Tibeats --
The Chattel Mortgage --
Mistress Ford's Plantation on Bayou Boeuf --
Description of the Latter --
Ford's Brother-in-law, Peter Tanner --
Meeting with Eliza --
She still Mourns for her Children --
Ford's Overseer, Chapin --
Tibeats' Abuse --
The Keg of Nails --
The First Fight with Tibeats --
His Discomfiture and Castigation --
The attempt to Hang me --
Chapin's Interference and Speech --
Unhappy Reflections --
Abrupt Departure of Tibeats, Cook, and Ramsey --
Lawson and the Brown Mule --
Message to the Pine Woods --
The Hot Sun --
Yet bound --
The Cords sink into my Flesh --
Chapin's Uneasiness --
Speculation --
Rachel, and her Cup of Water --
Suffering increases --
The Happiness of Slavery --
Arrival of Ford --
He cuts the Cords which bind me, and takes the Rope from my Neck --
Misery --
The gathering of the Slaves in Eliza's Cabin --
Their Kindness --
Rachel Repeats the Occurrences of the Day --
Lawson entertains his Companions with an Account of his Ride --
Chapin's apprehensions of Tibeats --
Hired to Peter Tanner --
Peter expounds the Scriptures --
Description of the Stocks --
Return to Tibeats --
Impossibility of pleasing him --
He attacks me with a Hatchet --
The Struggle over the Broad Axe --
The Temptation to Murder him --
Escape across the Plantation --
Observations from the Fence --
Tibeats approaches, followed by the Hounds --
They take my Track --
Their loud Yells --
They almost overtake me --
I reach the Water --
The Hounds confused --
Moccasin Snakes --
Alligators --
Night in the "Great Pacoudrie Swamp" --
The Sounds of Life --
North-West Course --
Emerge into the Pine Woods --
Slave and his Young Master --
Arrival at Ford's --
Food and Rest --
The Mistress' Garden --
The Crimson and Golden Fruit --
Orange and Pomegranate Trees --
Return to Bayou Boeuf --
Master Ford's Remarks on the way --
The Meeting with Tibeats --
His Account of the Chase --
Ford censures his Brutality --
Arrival at the Plantation --
Astonishment of the Slaves on seeing me --
The anticipated Flogging --
Kentucky John --
Mr. Eldret, the Planter --
Eldret's Sam --
Trip to the "Big Cane Brake" --
The Tradition of "Sutton's Field" --
Forest Trees --
Gnats and Mosquitoes --
The Arrival of Black Women in the Big Cane --
Lumber Women --
Sudden Appearance of Tibeats --
His Provoking Treatment --
Visit to Bayou Boeuf --
The Slave Pass --
Southern Hospitality --
The Last of Eliza --
Sale to Edwin Epps --
Personal Appearance of Epps --
Epps, Drunk and Sober --
A Glimpse of his History --
Cotton Growing --
The Mode of Ploughing and Preparing Ground --
Of Planting, of Hoeing, of Picking, of Treating Raw Hands --
The difference in Cotton Pickers --
Patsey a remarkable one --
Tasked according to Ability --
Beauty of a Cotton Field --
The Slave's Labors --
Fear of Approaching the Gin-House --
Weighing --
"Chores" --
Cabin Life --
The Corn Mill --
The Uses of the Gourd --
Fear of Oversleeping --
Fear continually --
Mode of Cultivating Corn --
Sweet Potatoes --
Fertility of the Soil --
Fattening Hogs --
Preserving Bacon --
Raising Cattle --
Shooting-Matches --
Garden Products --
Flowers and Verdure --
The Curious Axe-Helve --
Symptoms of approaching Illness --
Continue to decline --
The Whip ineffectual --
Confined to the Cabin --
Visit by Dr. Wines --
Partial Recovery --
Failure at Cotton Picking --
What may be heard on Epps' Plantation --
Lashes Graduated --
Epps in a Whipping Mood --
Epps in a Dancing Mood --
Description of the Dance --
Loss of Rest no Excuse --
Epps' Characteristics --
Jim Barns --
Removal from Huff Power to Bayou Boeuf --
Description of Uncle Abram; of Wiley; of Aunt Phebe; of Bob, Henry, and Edward; of Patsey; with a Genealogical Account of each --
Something of their Past History, and Peculiar Characteristics --
Jealousy and Lust --
Patsey, the Victim --
Destruction of the Cotton Crop in 1845 --
Demand for Laborers in St.
Mary's Parish --
Sent thither in a Drove --
The Order of the March --
The Grand Coteau --
Hired to Judge Turner on Bayou Salle --
Appointed Driver in his Sugar House --
Sunday Services --
Slave Furniture; how obtained --
The Party at Yarney's, in Centreville --
Good Fortune --
The Captain of the Steamer --
His Refusal to Secrete me --
Return to Bayou Boeuf --
Sight of Tibeats --
Patsey's Sorrows --
Tumult and Contention --
Hunting the Coon and Opossum --
The Cunning of the latter --
The Lean Condition of the Slave --
Description of the Fish Trap --
The Murder of the Man from Natchez --
Epps Chalenged by Marshall --
The Influence of Slavery --
The Love of Freedom --
Labors on Sugar Plantations --
The Mode of Planting Cane --
Of Hoeing Cane --
Cane Ricks --
Cutting Cane --
Description of the Cane Knife --
Winrowing --
Preparing for Succeeding Crops --
Description of Hawkins' Sugar Mill on Bayou Boeuf --
The Christmas Holidays --
The Carnival Season of the Children of Bondage --
The Christmas Supper --
Red, the Favorite Color --
The Violin, and the Consolation it afforded --
The Christmas Dance --
Lively, the Coquette --
Sam Roberts, and his Rivals --
Slave Songs --
Southern Life as it is --
Three Days in the Year --
The System of Marriage --
Uncle Abram's Contempt of Matrimony --
Overseers --
How they are Armed and Accompanied --
The Homicide --
His Execution at Marksville --
Slave Drivers --
Appointed Driver on removing to Bayou Boeuf --
Practice makes perfect --
Epps's Attempt to Cut Platt's Throat --
The Escape from him --
Protected by the Mistress --
Forbids Reading and Writing --
Obtain a Sheet of Paper after Nine Years' Effort --
The Letter --
Armsby, the Mean White --
Partially confide in him --
His Treachery --
Epps' Suspicions --
How they were quieted --
Burning the Letter --
Armsby leaves the Bayou --
Disappointment and Despair --
Wiley disregards the counsels of Aunt Phebe and Uncle Abram, and is caught by the Patrollers --
The Organization and Duties of the latter --
Wiley Runs Away --
Speculations in regard to him --
His Unexpected Return --
His Capture on the Red River, and Confinement in Alexandria Jail --
Discovered by Joseph B. Roberts --
Subduing Dogs in anticipation of Escape --
The Fugitives in the Great Pine Woods --
Captured by Adam Taydem and the Indians --
Augustus killed by Dogs --
Nelly, Eldret's Slave Woman --
The Story of Celeste --
The Concerted Movement --
Lew Cheney, the Traitor --
The Idea of Insurrection --
O'Niel, the Tanner --
Conversation with Aunt Phebe overheard --
Epps in the Tanning Business --
Stabbing of Uncle Abram --
The Ugly Wound --
Epps is Jealous --
Patsey is Missing --
Her Return from Shaw's --
Harriet, Shaw's Black Wife --
Epps Enraged --
Patsey denies his Charges --
She is Tied Down Naked to Four Stakes --
The Inhuman Flogging
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Adult Book
Physical Desc
ix, 336 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Notes
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Originally published: Auburn, N.Y. : Derby and Miller, 1853.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Northup, S. (20001853). Twelve years a slave . Dover Publications.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863. 20001853. Twelve Years a Slave. Dover Publications.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863. Twelve Years a Slave Dover Publications, 20001853.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Northup, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave Dover Publications, 20001853.
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