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Chapter 2 THE NEGRO SALE.

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ness of raising slaves for the market, were there, and slave-traders, who make a business of buying human beings in the slave-raising States and takin

her of the bystanders. This was young Linwood. True to his promise, he was there with a blank bank-

raves, and who had been treated with great kindness by that gentleman, during his life. Now they were to be separated, and form new relations an

idder. Husbands and wives were separated with a degree of indifference that is unknown in any other relation in

were brought out to the place of sale. The mother was first put upon the auction-block, and sold to a noted negro trader

g the crowd. There she stood, with a skin as fair as most white women, her features as beautifully regular as any of her sex of pure Anglo-Saxon blo

Miss Isabella was fit to deck the drawin

fancy-girl for any one! She enjoys good health

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that sum. You certainly do not know the value of the article you are bidding on. Here

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round, and began in a rough manner to relate some anecdote connected wi

d talking, kept up a continual hum and confusion among the crowd, while the slave-girl stood with tearful eyes,

neer, "is pure. She has never been from under her mot

tioneer once more resorted to his jokes, and concluded by assuring the company

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droon girl was struck off, and bec

benefits supposed to accrue from her having been sprinkled and immersed, together with a warranty of her devoted Christianity, for $300; her ability to make a good prayer for $200; and her chast

who had purchased Agnes and her daughter Marion, with several of the other slaves, took them to the county pris

d sister. The "Good-by" of the slave is unlike that of any other class in the community. It is indeed a farewell forever. With tears streaming dow

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Contents

Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 1 THE SLAVE'S SOCIAL CIRCLE.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 2 THE NEGRO SALE.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 3 THE SLAVE SPECULATOR.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 4 THE BOAT-RACE.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 5 THE SLAVE-MARKET.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 6 THE SLAVE-HOLDING PARSON.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 7 A NIGHT IN THE PARSON'S KITCHEN.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 8 THE QUADROON'S HOME
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 9 TO-DAY A MISTRESS, TO-MORROW A SLAVE
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 10 THE MOTHER-IN-LAW.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 11 A HARD-HEARTED WOMAN.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 12 THE PRISON.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 13 THE ARREST.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 14 CLOTELLE.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 15 A SLAVE-HUNTING PARSON.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 16 THE TRUE HEROINE.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 17 THE HERO OF MANY ADVENTURES.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 18 SELF-SACRIFICE.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 19 MEETING OF THE COUSINS.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 20 THE FLIGHT.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 21 THE HERO OF A NIGHT.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 22 A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 23 NEW FRIENDS.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 24 THE MYSTERIOUS MEETING.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 25 THE HAPPY MEETING.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 26 THE HAPPY DAY.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 27 CLOTELLE MEETS HER FATHER.
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Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States
Chapter 28 THE FATHER'S RESOLVE.
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