+-------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's note: | | | |Obvious typographic errors have been corrected. | | | +-------------------------------------------------+ AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FEMALE SLAVE [Illustration: Decoration] REDFIELD 34 BEEKMAN STREET, NEW YORK 1857 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by J. S. REDFIELD, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. E. O. JENKINS, Printer and Stereotyper, NO. 26 FRANKFORT STREET. TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM, This little Book IS RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED, BY THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I. The Old Kentucky Farm--My Parentage and Early Training--Death of the Master--The Sale-day--New Master and New Home, 9 CHAPTER II. A View of the New Home, 19 CHAPTER III. The Yankee School-Mistress--Her Philosophy--The American Abolitionists, 29 CHAPTER IV. Conversation with Miss Bradly--A Light Breaks through the Darkness, 32 CHAPTER V. A Fashionable Tea-Table--Table-Talk--Aunt Polly's Experience--The Overseer's Authority--The Whipping-Post--Transfiguring Power of Divine Faith, 37 CHAPTER VI. Restored Consciousness--Aunt Polly's Account of my Miraculous Return to Life--The Master's Affray with the Overseer, 51 CHAPTER VII. Amy's Narrative, and her Philosophy of a Future State, 58 CHAPTER VIII. Talk at the Farm-House--Threats--The New Beau--Lindy, 65 CHAPTER IX. Lindy's Boldness--A Suspicion--The Master's Accountability--The Young Reformer--Words of Hope--The Cultivated Mulatto--The Dawn of Ambition, 76 CHAPTER X. The Conversation, in which Fear and Suspicion are Aroused--The Young Master, 84 CHAPTER XI. The Flight--Young Master's Apprehensions--His Conversation--Amy--Edifying Talk among Ladies, 93 CHAPTER XII. Mr. Peterkin's Rage--Its Escape--Chat at the Breakfast-Table--Change of Views--Power of the Flesh-pots, 101 CHAPTER XIII. Recollections--Consoling Influence of Sympathy--Amy's Doctrine of the Soul--Talk at the Spring, 107 CHAPTER XIV. The Prattlings of Insanity--Old Wounds Reopen--The Walk to the Doctor's--Influence of Nature, 116 CHAPTER XV. Quietude of the Woods--A Glimpse of the Stranger--Mrs. Mandy's Words of Cruel Irony--Sad Reflections, 121 CHAPTER XVI.