[Footnote 1: The indignity spoken of was this: Mr. Steward had established a grocery and provision store on Buffalo Street, in a part of Abner Wakelee's building, opposite the Eagle Hotel. He put up his sign, a very plain and proper one, and at night, some competitors, whom he knew, as well as he could know anything which he could not prove, smeared his sign with black paint, utterly destroying it! But the misguided men who stooped to such an act--the victims of sensuality and excess--have years ago ended their journey, and passed to the bar of a higher adjudication.] * * * * * CONTENTS. I. SLAVE LIFE ON THE PLANTATION II. AT THE GREAT HOUSE III. HORSE-RACING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IV. JOURNEY TO OUR NEW HOME IN NEW YORK V. INCIDENTS AT SODUS VI. REMOVAL FROM SODUS TO BATH VII. DUELING VIII. HORSE-RACING AND GENERAL TRAINING IX. DEATH-BED AND BRIDAL SCENES X. HIRED OUT TO A NEW MASTER XI. THOUGHTS ON FREEDOM XII. CAPTAIN HELM--DIVORCE--KIDNAPPING XIII. LOCATE IN THE VILLAGE OF ROCHESTER XIV. INCIDENTS IN ROCHESTER AND VICINITY XV. SAD REVERSES CAPTAIN HELM XVI. BRITISH EMANCIPATION OF SLAVERY XVII. ORATION--TERMINATION OF SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH POSSESSIONS XVIII. CONDITION OF FREE COLORED PEOPLE XIX. PERSECUTION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE XX. REMOVAL TO CANADA XXI. ROUGHING IT IN THE WILDS OF CANADA XXII. NARROW ESCAPE OF A SMUGGLER XXIII. NARRATIVE OF TWO FUGITIVES FROM VIRGINIA XXIV. PLEASANT RE-UNION OF OLD AND TRIED FRIENDS XXV. PRIVATE LOSSES AND PRIVATE DIFFICULTIES XXVI. INCIDENTS AND PECULIARITIES OF THE INDIANS XXVII. OUR DIFFICULTIES WITH ISRAEL LEWIS XXVIII. DESPERATION OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE XXIX. A NARROW ESCAPE FROM MY ENEMIES XXX. DEATH OF B. PAUL AND RETURN OF HIS BROTHER XXXI. MY FAMILY RETURN TO ROCHESTER XXXII. THE LAND AGENT AND THE SQUATTER XXXIII. CHARACTER AND DEATH OF ISRAEL LEWIS XXXIV. MY RETURN TO ROCHESTER XXXV. BISHOP BROWN--DEATH OF MY DAUGHTER XXXVI. CELEBRATION OF THE FIRST OF AUGUST XXXVII. CONCLUSION CORRESPONDENCE PREFACE.