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CONTENTS.
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| PAGE. | |
| Sent back to the Woods, | 213 |
| Covey's Manner of proceeding to Whip, | 214 |
| His Cunning and Trickery—Severe Labor, | 215 |
| Family Worship, | 217 |
| Shocking Contempt for Chastity—An Illustration, | 218 |
| Author Broken Down—His only Leisure Time, | 219 |
| Freedom of the Ships and his own Slavery Contrasted, | 220 |
| Anguish beyond Description, | 221 |
| Chapter XVI. | |
| ANOTHER PRESSURE OF THE TYRANT'S VICE. | |
| Experience at Covey's summed up, | 222 |
| Scene in the Treading Yard, | 223 |
| Author taken Ill, | 224 |
| Unusual Brutality of Covey, | 225 |
| Escape to St Michael's—Suffering in the Woods, | 227 |
| Circumstances Narrated to Master Thomas—His Bearing, | 229 |
| The Case Prejudged—Driven back to Covey's, | 231 |
| Chapter XVII. | |
| THE LAST FLOGGING. | |
| A Sleepless Night—Return to Covey's, | 233 |
| His Conduct—Again Escape to the Woods, | 234 |
| Deplorable Spectacle—Night in the Woods, | 235 |
| An Alarm—A Friend, not an Enemy, | 236 |
| Sandy's Hospitality—The Ash Cake Supper, | 237 |
| A Conjuror—His Advice—The Magic Root, | 238 |
| Want of Faith—The Talisman Accepted, | 239 |
| Meeting with Covey—His Sunday Face, | 240 |
| His Manner on Monday—A Defensive Resolve, | 241 |
| A Rough and Tumble Fight, | 242 |
| Unexpected Resistance, | 243 |
| Covey's Ineffectual Commands for Assistance, | 244 |
| The Victory and its Results, | 246 |
| Effects upon my own Character, | 247 |
| Chapter XVIII. | |
| NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES. | |
| Change of Masters—Resolve to Fight my Way, | 250 |
| Ability to Read a cause of Prejudice, | 251 |
| Manner of Spending the Holidays, | 252 |
| The Effects—Sharp hit at Slavery, | 253 |
| A Device of Slavery, | 255 |
| Difference between Master Freeland and Covey, | 257 |
| An Irreligious Master Preferred—The Reasons Why, | 258 |
| The Reverend Rigby Hopkins, | 259 |
| Catalogue of Floggable Offenses, | 260 |
| Rivalry among Slaves Encouraged, | 261 |
| Improved Condition at Freeland's, | 262 |
| Reasons for continued Discontent, | 263 |
| Congenial Society—The Sabbath School, | 264 |
