X. A Perilous Passage in tbe Slave Girl's Life 914
XII. Fear of lnsurrection 919
XVII. Tbe Fligbt 923
XXI. The Loophole of Retreat 926
XXIX. Preparations for Escape 929
XXXV. Prejudice Against Color 936
XXXVIII. Renewed Invitations to Go South 938
XXXIX. The Confession 940
XL. The Fugitive Slave Law 941
XLI. Free at Last 946
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) 953
Resistance to Civil Government 957
From Walden; Cbapter 2: Where I Lived, and What
I Lived For 977
Life Without Principle 990
Frederick Douglass (1818- 1895) 1009
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
American Slave, Written by Himself 1012
Letter to His Former Master 1095
Herman Melville (1819-1891) 1103
From Hawtborne and His Mosses 1107
Bartleby tbe Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street 1114
Benito Cereno 1147
From Battle-Pieces: The Portent 1218
From Battle-Pieces: The March into Virginia, Ending in
the First Manassas (July, 1861) 1219
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) 1221
Song of Myself 1225
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 1278
When I Heard at tbe Close of tbe Day 1283
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 1284
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Nigbt 1285
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim 1286
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd 1287
From Democratic Vistas 1294
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 1304
130 [These are tbe days when Birds come back-] 1305
199 [I'm "wife"-I've finished that-] 1306