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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The Givens Collection  
Introduction by: Louise Meriwether
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Table of Contents.

CHAPTER I: Childhood.

CHAPTER II: The New Master and Mistress.

CHAPTER III: The Slaves' New Year's Day.

CHAPTER IV: The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man.

CHAPTER V: The Trials of Girlhood.

CHAPTER VI: The Jealous Mistress.

CHAPTER VII: The Lover.

CHAPTER VIII: What Slaves are Taught to Think of the North.

CHAPTER IX: Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders.

CHAPTER X: A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life.

CHAPTER XI: The New Tie to Life.

CHAPTER XII: Fear of Insurrection.

CHAPTER XIII: The Church and Slavery.

CHAPTER XIV: Another Link to Life.

CHAPTER XV: Continued Persecutions.

CHAPTER XVI: Scenes at the Plantation.

CHAPTER XVII: The Flight.

CHAPTER XVIII: Months of Peril.

CHAPTER XVIX: The Children Sold.

CHAPTER XX: New Perils.

CHAPTER XXI: The Loophole of Retreat.

CHAPTER XXII: Christmas Festivities.

CHAPTER XXIII: Still in Prison.

CHAPTER XXIV: The Candidate for Congress.

CHAPTER XXV: Competition in Cunning.

CHAPTER XXVI: Important Era in my Brother's Life.

CHAPTER XXVII: New Destination for the Children.

CHAPTER XXVIII: Aunt Nancy.

CHAPTER XXIX: Preparations for Escape.

CHAPTER XXX: Northward Bound.

CHAPTER XXXI: Incidents in Philadelphia.

CHAPTER XXXII: The Meeting of Mother and Daughter.

CHAPTER XXXIII: A Home Found.

CHAPTER XXXIV: The Old Enemy Again.

CHAPTER XXXV: Prejudice Against Color.

CHAPTER XXXVI: The Hairbreadth Escape.

CHAPTER XXXVII: A Visit to England.

CHAPTER XXXVIII: Renewed Invitations to go South.

CHAPTER XXXIX: The Confession.

CHAPTER XL: The Fugitive Slave Law.

CHAPTER XLI: Free at Last.

Appendix
Epilogue