r with a Secessionist. 30

CHAPTER III.--CROSSING THE RUNS.--The Black Declines His
Freedom.--His Reasons for so Doing.--A "native"
Abolitionist.--Swimming the Run.--Black Spirits and
White.--Shelter. 55

CHAPTER IV.--POOR WHITES.--The Mills House.--South Carolina
Clay-Eaters.--Political Discussion.--President Lincoln a
Negro.--"Three in a Bed and one in the Middle."--$250 reward.--A
Secret League. 69

CHAPTER V.--ON THE PLANTATION.--The Planter's Dwelling.--His
House-Keeper.--The Process of Turpentine Making.--Loss to Carolina
by Secession.--The Dying Boy.--The Story of Jim.--A Northern Man
with Southern Principles.--Sam Murdered.--Pursuit of the Overseer. 94

CHAPTER VI.--THE PLANTER'S FAMILY.--The old Nurse.--Her Story.--A
White Slave-Woman's Opinion of Slavery.--The Stables.--The
Negro-Quarters.--Sunday Exercises.--The Taking of Moye. 127

CHAPTER VII.--PLANTATION DISCIPLINE.--The "Ole Cabin."--The Mode of
Negro Punishment.--The "Thumb-Screw."--A Ministering Angel.--A Negro
Trial.--A Rebellion.--A Turpentine Dealer.--A Boston Dray on its
Travels. 150

CHAPTER VIII.--THE NEGRO HUNTER.--Young Democrats.--Political
Discussion.--Startling Statistics.--A Freed Negro. 169

CHAPTER IX.--THE COUNTRY CHURCH.--Its Description.--The
"Corn-Cracker."--The News.--Strange Disclosure. 180

CHAPTER X.--THE NEGRO FUNERAL.--The Burial Ground.--A Negro
Sermon.--The Appearance of Juley.--The Colonel's
Heartlessness.--The Octoroon's Explanation of it.--The Escape
of Moye. 196

CHAPTER XI.--THE PURSUIT.--The Start.--"Carolina Race-Horses."--A
Race.--We Lose the Trail.--A Tornado.--A Narrow Escape.-- 207

CHAPTER XII.--THE YANKEE SCHOOLMISTRESS.--Our New
Apparel.--"Kissing Goes by Favor."--Schools at the South. 222

CHAPTER XIII.--THE RAILWAY STATION.--The Village.--A Drunken
Yankee.--A Narrow Escape.--Andy Jones.--A Light-Wood Fire.--The
Colonel's Departure. 227

CHAPTER XIV.--THE BARBACUE.--The Camp-Ground.--The
Stump-Speaker.--A Stump Speech.--Almost a Fight.--The
Manner of Roasting the Ox.