HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896) 792
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the lowly 794
Volume I
Chapter I. In which the reader is introduced to a man of Humanity 794
Chapter III. The husband and Father 802
Chapter VII. The mother's struggle 805
Chapter IX. In which it appears that a senator is but a man 815
Chapter XII. Select incident of lawful trade 826
Chapter XIII. The quaker settlement 838
Chapter XIV. Evangeline 845
Volume II
Chapter XX. Topsy 852
From Chapter XXVI. Death 863
Chapter XXX. The slave Warehouse 867
Chapter XXXI. The middle passage 875
Chapter XXXIV. The Quadroon's story 879
Chapter XL. The Martyr 887
FANNY FERN (SARAH WILLIS PARTON) (1811-1872) 892
Aunt Hetty on Matrimony 894
Hungry husbands 895
"Leaves of grass" 896
Male Criticism on Ladies' Books 899
"Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern" 900
A law more nice than just 901
Writing "Compositions" 903
Ruth Hall 905
Chapter LIV 905
Chapter LVI 907
HARRIET JACOBS (c. 1813-1897) 909
Incidents in the life of a slave girl 910
I. Childhood 910
VII. The lover 913
X. A perilous passage in the slave girl's life 917
XIV. Another link to life 921
XXI. The loophole of retreat 923
XLI. Free at last 925
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN (1814-1884) 931
From The Narrative of the life and escape of William Wells Brown 933
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter 937
Chapter I. The Negro Sale 937
Chapter XXIV. The arrest 943
Chapter XXV. Death is freedom 946