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by

William Wells Brown




CONTENTS

       I  THE SLAVE'S SOCIAL CIRCLE.
      II  THE <DW64> SALE.
     III  THE SLAVE SPECULATOR.
      IV  THE BOAT-RACE.
       V  THE YOUNG MOTHER.
      VI  THE SLAVE-MARKET.
     VII  THE SLAVE-HOLDING PARSON.
    VIII  A NIGHT IN THE PARSON'S KITCHEN.
      IX  THE MAN OF HONOR.
       X  THE QUADROON'S HOME
      XI  TO-DAY A MISTRESS, TO-MORROW A SLAVE
     XII  THE MOTHER-IN-LAW.
    XIII  A HARD-HEARTED WOMAN.
     XIV  THE PRISON.
      XV  THE ARREST.
     XVI  DEATH IS FREEDOM.
    XVII  CLOTELLE.
   XVIII  A SLAVE-HUNTING PARSON.
     XIX  THE TRUE HEROINE.
      XX  THE HERO OF MANY ADVENTURES.
     XXI  SELF-SACRIFICE.
    XXII  LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT AND WHAT FOLLOWED.
   XXIII  MEETING OF THE COUSINS.
    XXIV  THE LAW AND ITS VICTIM.
     XXV  THE FLIGHT.
    XXVI  THE HERO OF A NIGHT.
   XXVII  TRUE FREEDOM.
  XXVIII  FAREWELL TO AMERICA.
    XXIX  A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
     XXX  NEW FRIENDS.
    XXXI  THE MYSTERIOUS MEETING.
   XXXII  THE HAPPY MEETING.
  XXXIII  THE HAPPY DAY.
   XXXIV  CLOTELLE MEETS HER FATHER.
    XXXV  THE FATHER'S RESOLVE.




CHAPTER I

THE SLAVE'S SOCIAL CIRCLE.

With the growing population in the Southern States, the increase of
mulattoes has been very great. Society does not frown upon the man who
sits with his half-white child upon his knee whilst the mother stands,
a slave, behind his chair. In nearly all the cities and towns of the
Slave States, the real <DW64>, or clear black, does