Thirty Years a Slave. Louis Hughes

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664645487

      Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       CHAPTER I. — LIFE ON A COTTON PLANTATION.

       BIRTH—SOLD IN A RICHMOND SLAVE PEN.

       A SLAVE MARKET.

       SLAVE WHIPPING AS A BUSINESS.

       SOLD IN THE MARKET.

       ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

       PRICE OF SLAVES.

       STARTED FOR A COTTON PLANTATION.

       MY MISSISSIPPI HOME.

       PLANTATION LIFE.

       THE GREAT HOUSE.

       HOUSE SERVANT AND ERRAND BOY.

       CRUEL TREATMENT.

       INSTRUCTIONS IN MEDICINE.

       THE OVERSEER—WHIPPINGS AND OTHER CRUELTIES.

       THE SLAVE CABIN.

       COTTON RAISING.

       THE COTTON WORM.

       THE COTTON HARVEST.

       PREPARING COTTON FOR MARKET.

       OTHER FARM PRODUCTS.

       FARM IMPLEMENTS.

       THE CLEARING OF NEW LAND.

       COOKING FOR THE SLAVES.

       CARDING AND SPINNING.

       WEAVING—CLOTHES OF THE SLAVES.

       SLAVE MOTHERS—CARE OF THE CHILDREN.

       METHODS OF PUNISHMENT.

       FOURTH OF JULY BARBECUE.

       ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH.

       RELIGIOUS MEETINGS OF THE SLAVES.

       A NEIGHBORHOOD QUARREL

       CHAPTER II. — SOCIAL AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SLAVERY.

       REMOVAL TO MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

       A NEW AND SPLENDID HOUSE.

       THE NEW STYLE OF LIVING.

       THE ADORNMENT OF THE GROUNDS.

       THE GARDEN.

       PROFUSION OF FLOWERS.

       THE FRUIT ORCHARD.

       I PRACTICE MEDICINE AMONG THE SLAVES.

       A SWELL RECEPTION.

       RELATIVES VISIT AT THE MANSION.

       ONE OF THE VISITORS DISTRUSTS ME.

       THE MADAM IN A RAGE.

       THE MADAM'S SEVERITY.

       A SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

       MASTER'S NEW COTTON PLANTATION.

       INCIDENTS.

       LONGING FOR FREEDOM.

       MY FIRST BREAK FOR FREEDOM.