Ebook: Twelve Years a Slave

Title page; DEDICATION; EDITOR'S PREFACE; CHAPTER I. Introductory-Ancestry-The Northup Family-Birth and Parentage-Mintus Northup-Marriage with Anne Hampton-Good Resolutions-Champlain Canal-Rafting Excursion to Canada-Farming-The Violin-Cooking-Removal to Saratoga-Parker and Perry-Slaves-and SlaveThe Beginning of Sorrow.; CHAPTER II. The two Strangers-The Circus Company-Departure from Saratoga-Ventriloquism and Legerdemain-Journey to New York-Free Papers-Brown and Hamilton-The haste to reach the Circus-Arrival in Washington-Funeral of Harrison-The Sudden Sickness-The TormeChains and Darkness.