Chapter I: Front Matter

Conversation with Miss Bradly--A Light Breaks through the Darkness, 32

CHAPTER V.

A Fashionable Tea-Table--Table-Talk--Aunt Polly's Experience--The Overseer's Authority--The Whipping-Post--Transfiguring Power of Divine Faith, 37

CHAPTER VI.

Restored Consciousness--Aunt Polly's Account of my Miraculous Return to Life--The Master's Affray with the Overseer, 51

CHAPTER VII.

Amy's Narrative, and her Philosophy of a Future State, 58

CHAPTER VIII.

Talk at the Farm-House--Threats--The New Beau--Lindy, 65

CHAPTER IX.

Lindy's Boldness--A Suspicion--The Master's Accountability--The Young Reformer--Words of Hope--The Cultivated Mulatto--The Dawn of Ambition, 76

CHAPTER X.

The Conversation, in which Fear and Suspicion are Aroused--The Young Master, 84

CHAPTER XI.

The Flight--Young Master's Apprehensions--His Conversation--Amy--Edifying Talk among Ladies, 93

CHAPTER XII.

Mr. Peterkin's Rage--Its Escape--Chat at the Breakfast-Table--Change of Views--Power of the Flesh-pots, 101

CHAPTER XIII.

Recollections--Consoling Influence of Sympathy--Amy's Doctrine of the Soul--Talk at the Spring, 107

CHAPTER XIV.

The Prattlings of Insanity--Old Wounds Reopen--The Walk to the Doctor's--Influence of Nature, 116

CHAPTER XV.

Quietude of the Woods--A Glimpse of the Stranger--Mrs. Mandy's Words of Cruel Irony--Sad Reflections, 121

CHAPTER XVI.

A Reflection--American Abolitionists--Disaffection in Kentucky--The Young Master--His Remonstrance, 127

CHAPTER XVII.

The Return of the Hunters, flushed with Success--Mr. Peterkin's Vagary, 136

CHAPTER XVIII.

The Essay of Wit--Young Abolitionist--His Influence--A Night at the Door of the "Lock-Up," 147

CHAPTER XIX.

Sympathy casteth out Fear--Consequence of the Night's Watch--Troubled Reflections, 161

CHAPTER XX.

The Trader--A Terrible Fright--Power of Prayer--Grief of the Helpless, 170

CHAPTER XXI.

Touching Farewell full of Pathos--The Parting--My Grief, 183

CHAPTER XXII.

A Conversation--Hope Blossoms Out, but Charlestown is full of Excitability, 191

CHAPTER XXIII.

The Supper--Its Consequences--Loss of Silver--A Lonely Night--Amy, 201

CHAPTER XXIV.

The Punishment--Cruelty--Its Fatal Consequence--Death, 211

CHAPTER XXV.

Conversation of the Father and Son--The Discovery; its Consequences--Death of the Young and Beautiful, 221

CHAPTER XXVI.

The Funeral--Miss Bradly's Departure--The Dispute--Spirit Questions, 232

CHAPTER XXVII.

The Awful Confession of the Master--Death--its Cold Solemnity, 243

CHAPTER XXVIII.

The Bridal--Its Ceremonies--A Trip, and a Change of Homes--The Magnolia--A Stranger, 251

CHAPTER XXIX.

The Argument, 259

CHAPTER XXX.

The Misdemeanor--The Punishment--Its Consequence--Fright, 279

CHAPTER XXXI.

The Day of Trial--Anxiety--The Volunteer Counsel--Verdict of the Jury, 293

CHAPTER XXXII.

Execution of the Sentence--A Change--Hope, 303

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Sold--Life as a Slave--Pen--Charles' Story--Uncle Peter's Troubles--A Star Peeping Forth from the Cloud, 314

CHAPTER XXXIV.

Scene in the Pen--Starting "Down the River"--Uncle Peter's Trial--My Rescue, 333

CHAPTER XXXV.

The New Home--A Pleasant Family Group--Quiet Love-Meetings, 342

CHAPTER XXXVI.

The New Associates--Depraved Views--Elsy's Mistake--Departure of the Young Ladies--Loneliness, 348

CHAPTER XXXVII.

The New Mistress--Her Kindness of Disposition--A Pretty Home--And Love-Interviews in the Summer Days, 355

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

An Awful Revelation--More Clouds to Darken the Sun of Life--Sickness and blessed Insensibility, 366