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OHAPTER V. ONE HUNDRED CONVENTIONS.

Anti-Slavery Conventions held in parts of New England, and in seme of the Middle and Western States—Mobs—Incidents, ete............857

CHAPTER VI. IMPRESSIONS ABROAD.

Danger to be averted—A refuge sought abroad—Voyage on the steam- ship Cambria—Refusal of first-class passage—Attractions of the fore- castle-deck—Hutchinson family—Invited to make a speech—South- erners feel insulted—Captain threatens to put them in irons— Experiences abroad—Attentions received—Impressions of different members of Parliament, and of other public men—Contrast with life in America—Kindness of friends—Their purchase of my person, and the gift of the same to myself—My return........scccccccccsccccens 266

CHAPTER VII. TRIUMPHS AND TRIALS.

New Experiences—Painful Disagreement of Opinion with old Friends —Final Decision to Publish my Paper in Rochester—Itsa Fortunes and its Friends—Change in my own Views Regarding the Consti- tution of the United States—Fidelity to Conviction—Loas of Old Friends—Support of New Ones—Loss of House, etc., by Fire— Triumphs and Trialsa—Under-ground Railroad—lIncidents............294

CHAPTER VIII.

JOHN BROWN AND MRS. BTOWE.

My First Meeting with Capt John Brown—The Free Soil Movement— Colored Convention—Uncle Tom’s Cabin—lIndustrial School for Colored People—Letter to Mrs. H. B. Stowe. ......cccccccccccccees «B09

CHAPTER IX.

INCREASING DEMANDS OF THE SLAVE POWER.

Increased demands of slavery—War in Kansas—Jobn Brown's raid— His capture and execution—My escape to England from United States marshals. ....cccccccce @eeeeeerec4ee Mentalist cicieciclc clocinelseitioceteeood

CHAPTER X.

THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

My eenneetion with John Brown—To and from Engiand—Predtfent#al ecntest—Hieetion of Abraham Lincolaz. Ui cls < ele tes ewe 6 ¢.000 o66 cele eee