Twelve years a slave, Solomon Northup ; introduction by Philip S. Foner

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Solomon Northup ; introduction by Philip S. Foner

Instantiates

• Twelve years a slave

Publication

• Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, 2000

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Originally published: Auburn, N.Y. : Derby and Miller, 1853

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• nc

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• txt

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Contents

• Rafting Excursion to Canada
• 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
• Farming
• 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 Violin
• 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
• Cooking
• 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
• Removal to Saratoga
• 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
• Parker and Perry
• 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
• Slaves and Slavery
• 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
• The Children
• 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
• The Beginning of Sorrow
• 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
• The two Strangers
• 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
• Ancestry
• The Circus Company
• 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
• Departure from Saratoga
• 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
• Ventriloquism and Legerdemain
• 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
• Journey to New-York
• 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
• Free Papers
• Garden Products
• Flowers and Verdure
• Brown and Hamilton
• The haste to reach the Circus
• Arrival in Washington
• Funeral of Harrison
• The Sudden Sickness
• The
• 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
• Northup Family
• 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
• Birth and Parentage
• 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
• Mintus Northup
• 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
• Marriage with Anne Hampton
• 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
• Good Resolutions
• 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
• Champlain Canal
• 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
• What may be heard on Epps' Plantation
• 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
• Lashes Graduated
• 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
• 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
• The Curious Axe-Helve
• 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
• Symptoms of approaching Illness
• 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
• Continue to decline
• 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
• The Whip ineffectual
• 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
• Confined to the Cabin
• 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
• Visit by Dr. Wines
• 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
• Partial Recovery
• 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
• Failure at Cotton Picking
• 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

Control code

ocm43095916

Dimensions

22 cm

Extent

ix, 336 pages

Isbn

9780329619299

Lccn

99089488

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Other physical details

illustrations

Record ID

u17358

System control number

• (Sirsi) o43095916
• (OCoLC)43095916