Parents, School and Teacher--Foundation of the Negroes' Mechanical Knowledge--First Brick A. M. E. Church--Bishop Allen--Olive Cemetery--Harriet Smith Home--"Underground Railroad"--Incidents on the Road--William and Ellen Craft--William Box Brown. CHAPTER II 15 Nat Turner's Insurrection--Experience on a Maryland Plantation--First Street Cars in Philadelphia--Anti-Slavery Meetings--Amusing Incidents--Opposition of Negro Churches--Kossuth Celebration, and the Unwelcome Guest. CHAPTER III 29 Cinguez, the Hero of Armistead Captives--The Threshold of Man's Estate--My First Lecturing Tour with Frederic Douglass--His "Life and Times"--Pen Picture of George William Curtis of Ante-Bellum Conditions--Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott, and Frances E. Harper, a Noble Band of Women--"Go Do Some Great Thing"--Journey to California--Incidents at Panama. CHAPTER IV 40 Arrival at San Francisco--Getting Domiciled and Seeking Work--Strike of White Employees--Lester & Gibbs, Importers--Assaulted in Our Store--First Protest from the Colored Men of California--Poll Tax. CHAPTER V 51 "Vigilance Committee" and Lynch Law at "Fort Gunny"--Murder of James King, of William--A Paradox to Present Conditions. CHAPTER VI 59 Gold Discovery in British Columbia--Incidents on Shipboard and Arrival at Victoria--National Unrest in 1859--"Irrepressible Conflict"--Garrison and Douglass--Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frances Ellen Harper--John Brown of Harper's Ferry--"Fugitive Slave Law"--Flight to Canada. CHAPTER VII 74 Abraham Lincoln President--Rebellion Inaugurated--Success of the Union Army--Re-Election of Lincoln--Bravery and Endurance of Negro Soldiers--Assassination of Lincoln--Lynching Denounced by Southern Governors and Statesmen--Words of Wisdom from St. Pierre de Couberton. CHAPTER VIII 85 My First Entry Into Political Life--Intricacies of the Ballot--Number of Negro Schools, Pupils and Amount of School Property in 1898--Amendment to Constitution and Interview with Vice-President Schuyler Colfax at Victoria, B. C.--William Lloyd Garrison, Jr., and James Russell Lowell on the Right to Vote. CHAPTER IX 93 Philip A. Bell, a Veteran Editor of the "Negro Press"--British Columbia, Its Early History, Efforts for Annexation to the United States--Meeting with Lady Franklin, Widow of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic Explorer, in 1859--Union of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada in 1868, the Political Issue--Queen Charlotte Island--Anthracite Coal Company--Director, Contractor and Shipper of First Cargo of Anthracite Coal on the Pacific Coast--Indians and Their Peculiarities. CHAPTER X 107