Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

GEORGE W. CARLETON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern

District of New York.

R. CRAIGHEAD,

Printer, Stereotyper, and Electrotyper,
Carton Building,

81, 83, and 85 Centre Street.

ΤΟ

CHARLES GODFREY LELAND,

MY FRIEND,

AND THE FRIEND OF EVERY MAN WHO WOULD EXALT LABOR,

AND DIGNIFY THE LABORER,

I Dedicate this Book.

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.-NEW YORK AFTER DARK.—A Ballad Boy.-A House
in Anthony Street.-A Sick Woman.-Strange Guests, .
CHAPTER II.-THE DYING MOTHER.-A Strange Story.-A Moth-
er's Blessing,
CHAPTER III.-A STAGE-COACH ADVENTURE.—“ "Squire Preston,
of Jones."-An Outside Passenger.-An Overturn, and its Con-
sequences. Tom's Store.-An Unexpected Meeting,
CHAPTER IV.-THE NEGRO-TRADER.-A Turkey Match.-Nine-
teenth Century Civilization.-"A Prime Lot."-Almost a Duel, 55
CHAPTER V.-A SLAVE SALE. "The Most Perfectest Gal in
Seven States."-Her History.-Two Hours of Agony,
CHAPTER VI.-ON THE ROAD.-A Southern Inn.-"Poor Trash.'
-Snuff Dipping.-Sale of a White Man,
CHAPTER VII.—A SLAVE MOTHER." Young Joe."-City Negro-
Quarters.-"Am de Chile Free?"

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CHAPTER VIII.-ON THE PLANTATION.-A Southern Gentleman.-
The Mansion.-A Beautiful Child.-" Old Joe,".
CHAPTER IX.-PLANTATION MANAGEMENT.-An Old Preacher.-
A Black Overseer.-A Cute Darky.-A Hard Master,
CHAPTER X.-A SOUTHERN WOMAN.-A Ministering Angel.-A
Black Bookkeeper,
CHAPTER XI.-THE NEGRO MEETING.-A Log Church.-A Fash-
ionable Prayer.-A Negro Sermon.-Eccentric Exhortation,
CHAPTER XII.-BLACK CLAIRVOYANCE.-Joe's House.-His Moth-
er.-Black Prophecy,
CHAPTER XIII.-A SCHOOLMISTRESS AND A WIFE.-Advertising
for a Governess.-The "Schulemarm."-A Death and a Wed-
ding,

CHAPTER XIV.—FRANK.-Correspondence,

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CHAPTER XV.-RUSSELL, ROLLINS & Co.-The Old Warehouse.-
John Hallet.-Tardy Repentance,
CHAPTER XVI.-SELMA.-A Shrew that Would n't be Tamed.-
Selma at the Opera,

CHAPTER XVII.—A PLANTATION CHRISTMAS.-Distributing the
Presents.-An Outdoor Breakdown.-A Happy Mother-in-Law.
-A Five-Thousand-Dollar Turn-out,

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CHAPTER XVIII.-FAMILY JARS.-The Governess in a Passion, 197
CHAPTER XIX.-THE NEGRO WEDDING.-Grinning Darkness.—
Joe's Address.-White Serving, .

CHAPTER XX.—A DeathbED.-Silent Quarters." The Ruling
Passion Strong in Death,"

CHAPTER XXI.-SOUTHERN CHIVALRY.-Model Negro-Houses.-
A Slave-Whipping,

CHAPTER XXII.—DIFFICULTIES.-An Unnatural Connection.-
"Bread" that "Returned after Many Days,"

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CHAPTER XXV.—Truth THAT IS STRANGER THAN FICTION.-The
Story of Selma.-A Brave Negress,

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CHAPTER XXIII.-A SUDDEN DISSOLUTION.-A "Character"
Worth $30,000.-A Disclosure,
CHAPTER XXIV.-A HURRIED JOURNEY.-Horses "Scarcer than
Hens' Teeth,"

CHAPTER XXVI.-THE NEGRO SALE.-Mrs. Preston's Mishaps.
"The Sins of the Fathers are Visited upon the Children."-A
Bad Tree that Bore Good Fruit.-Hallet Unmasked,
CHAPTER XXVII.-THE LYNCHING.-Gaston as Judge.-Larkin
as Counsel.-Mulock gets his Deserts,

CHAPTER XXVIII.—“ DEAD! DEAD!"-"Would You have Me
Marry a Slave?"-A Terrible Dream,
CHAPTER XXIX.-CONCLUSION.-In which the Author does not
do Justice to all of his Characters,
LAST WORDS, .