# The White Slave, or Memoirs of a Fugitive

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THE
WHITE SLAVE;
OR,
MEMOIRS OF A FUGITIVE.
“All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing happiness and safety.”—Virginia Bill of Rights, Art. I.
BOSTON: TAPPAN AND WHITTEMORE.
MILWAUKIE, WIS.: ROOD AND WHITTEMORE. 1852.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the years 1852, by
TAPPAN AND WHITTEMORE,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
PRESS OF G. C. RAND, CORNHILL, BOSTON.
ADVERTISEMENT.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS :
| Chapter 1 | Memoirs | 5 |
| Chapter 2 | The county in which I was born | 7 |
| Chapter 3 | That education is the most effectual | 11 |
| Chapter 4 | I was about seventeen years old | 18 |
| Chapter 5 | The family of colonel Moore | 21 |
| Chapter 6 | I had the same task with those | 28 |
| Chapter 7 | It would be irksome to myself | 31 |
| Chapter 8 | It was impossible for my wife | 39 |
| Chapter 9 | I knew that the place where | 46 |
| Chapter 10 | I learned afterwards | 58 |
| Chapter 11 | It was past noon before we arrived at | 62 |
| Chapter 12 | When I recovered my senses | 66 |
| Chapter 13 | The next day I was to be sold | 70 |
| Chapter 14 | When my new master learned that | 74 |
| Chapter 15 | Some persons perhaps may think that | 84 |
| Chapter 16 | It is the lot of the slave | 90 |
| Chapter 17 | We were driven into the prison-yard | 98 |
| Chapter 18 | I had been in the jail ten days | 102 |
| Chapter 19 | We remained in jail some three weeks | 108 |
| Chapter 20 | I had not been long in Mr Carleton's | 117 |
| Chapter 21 | It seemed to be with the greatest | 125 |
| Chapter 22 | Before we had half-finished what we had | 148 |
| Chapter 23 | I have before observed that Sunday | 156 |
| Chapter 24 | One Sunday morning when the boy | 160 |
| Chapter 25 | When I got back to Carleton-Hall | 162 |
| Chapter 26 | At length we arrived at Charleston | 168 |
| Chapter 27 | Among Mr Carleton's servants | 173 |
| Chapter 28 | It is customary in South Carolina | 182 |
| Chapter 29 | Since the death of his wife | 189 |
| Chapter 30 | The authority of masters over their slaves | 197 |
| Chapter 31 | We scraped a shallow grave | 205 |
| Chapter 32 | By the end of the winter | 210 |
| Chapter 33 | We travelled slowly all that night | 213 |
| Chapter 34 | I walked on as fast as I was able | 220 |
| Chapter 35 | The favorable breezes | 227 |
| Chapter 36 | We had a short passage to Liverpool | 231 |
| Chapter 37 | Having formed the resolve recorded | 238 |
| Chapter 38 | Having reached Richmond on my | 246 |
| Chapter 39 | Returning to Richmond | 249 |
| Chapter 40 | I lost not a moment in profiting | 255 |
| Chapter 41 | Two or three days after my arrival at | 261 |
| Chapter 42 | Returning the next day to Carleton Hall | 267 |
| Chapter 43 | Mr Telfair, perhaps from professional | 275 |
| Chapter 44 | In leaving Mr Mason's hospitable mansion | 284 |
| Chapter 45 | As I began to approach the neighborhood | 291 |
| Chapter 46 | When I recovered my senses | 305 |
| Chapter 47 | Shortly after arriving at Charleston | 309 |
| Chapter 48 | Hitherto, during my journey southward | 314 |
| Chapter 49 | The stage coach stopped for dinner at | 321 |
| Chapter 50 | As the late clerk, bookkeeper | 325 |
| Chapter 51 | Mastering my emotion as well as I could | 332 |
| Chapter 52 | It was not very difficult to discover | 343 |
| Chapter 53 | Leaving my new acquaintance behind | 347 |
| Chapter 54 | As I entered the town of Vicksburg | 351 |
| Chapter 55 | Having written a letter of inquiry to | 378 |
| Chapter 56 | The new mistress — into whose hands | 389 |
| Chapter 57 | On Mr Colter’s suggestion | 390 |
| Chapter 58 | Poor Eliza! Poor child indeed | 398 |
| Chapter 59 | The very next morning | 430 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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