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Introduction
Autobiographical "Ground Zero"
Point of Departure 1: An Autobiographical Incident
Point of Departure 2: A Phase in One's Life
Point of Departure 3: A (Mostly Detached) Memoir of a Person
Point of Departure 4: A (Mostly Detached) Memoir of a Place
Point of Departure 5: A Reflection Upon An Eyewitness Event
Point of Departure 6: An Evocation of Nature
Point of Departure 7: An Intimate Memoir of a Person
Point of Departure 8: An Insider's Perspective on a Place
Point of Departure 9: A Family Anecdote
The Destined Goal: A Full Autobiography
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
CHAPTER I: My Birth and Parentage—Early Tastes and Travels—Marriage, and Widowhood.
CHAPTER II: Struggles for Life—The Cholera in Jamaica—I leave Kingston for the Isthmus of Panama—Chagres, Navy Bay, and Gatun—Life in Panama—Up the River Chagres to Gorgona and Cruces.
CHAPTER III: My Reception at the Independent Hotel—A Cruces Table d’Hôte—Life in Cruces—Amusements of the Crowds—A Novel Four-post Bed.
CHAPTER IV: An Unwelcome Visitor in Cruces—The Cholera—Success of the Yellow Doctress—Fearful Scene at the Mule-owner’s—The Burying Parties—The Cholera attacks me.
CHAPTER V: American Sympathy—I take an Hotel in Cruces—My Customers—Lola Montes—Miss Hayes and the Bishop—Gambling in Cruces—Quarrels amongst the Travellers—New Granadan Military—The Thieves of Cruces—A Narrow Escape
CHAPTER VI: MIGRATION TO GORGONA—FAREWELL DINNERS AND SPEECHES—A BUILDING SPECULATION—LIFE IN GORGONA—SYMPATHY WITH AMERICAN SLAVES—DR. CASEY IN TROUBLE—FLOODS AND FIRES—YANKEE INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM.
CHAPTER VII: THE YELLOW FEVER IN JAMAICA—MY EXPERIENCE OF DEATH-BED SCENES—I LEAVE AGAIN FOR NAVY BAY, AND OPEN A STORE THERE—I AM ATTACKED WITH THE GOLD FEVER, AND START FOR ESCRIBANOS—LIFE IN THE INTERIOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW GRANADA—A REVOLUTIONARY CONSPIRACY ON A SMALL SCALE—THE DINNER DELICACIES OF ESCRIBANOS—JOURNEY UP THE PALMILLA RIVER—A FEW WORDS ON THE PRESENT ASPECT OF AFFAIRS ON THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA.
CHAPTER VIII: I LONG TO JOIN THE BRITISH ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL—MY WANDERINGS ABOUT LONDON FOR THAT PURPOSE—HOW I FAIL—ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIRM OF “DAY AND MARTIN”—I EMBARK FOR TURKEY.
CHAPTER IX: VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE—MALTA—GIBRALTAR—CONSTANTINOPLE, AND WHAT I THOUGHT OF IT—VISIT TO SCUTARI HOSPITAL—MISS NIGHTINGALE.
CHAPTER X: “JEW JOHNNY”—I START FOR BALACLAVA—KINDNESS OF MY OLD FRIENDS—ON BOARD THE “MEDORA”—MY LIFE ON SHORE—THE SICK WHARF.
CHAPTER XI: ALARMS IN THE HARBOUR—GETTING THE STORES ON SHORE—ROBBERY BY NIGHT AND DAY—THE PREDATORY TRIBES OF BALACLAVA—ACTIVITY OF THE AUTHORITIES—WE OBTAIN LEAVE TO ERECT OUR STORE, AND FIX UPON SPRING HILL AS ITS SITE—THE TURKISH PACHA—THE FLOOD—OUR CARPENTERS—I BECOME AN ENGLISH SCHOOLMISTRESS ABROAD.
CHAPTER XII: THE BRITISH HOTEL—DOMESTIC DIFFICULTIES—OUR ENEMIES—THE RUSSIAN RATS—ADVENTURES IN SEARCH OF A CAT—LIGHT-FINGERED ZOUAVES—CRIMEAN THIEVES—POWDERING A HORSE.
CHAPTER XIII: MY WORK IN THE CRIMEA.
CHAPTER XIV: MY CUSTOMERS AT THE BRITISH HOTEL.
CHAPTER XV: MY FIRST GLIMPSE OF WAR—ADVANCE OF MY TURKISH FRIENDS ON KAMARA—VISITORS TO THE CAMP—MISS NIGHTINGALE—MONS. SOYER AND THE CHOLERA—SUMMER IN THE CRIMEA—“THIRSTY SOULS”—DEATH BUSY IN THE TRENCHES.
CHAPTER XVI: UNDER FIRE ON THE FATAL 18TH OF JUNE—BEFORE THE REDAN—AT THE CEMETERY—THE ARMISTICE—DEATHS AT HEAD-QUARTERS—DEPRESSION IN THE CAMP—PLENTY IN THE CRIMEA—THE PLAGUE OF FLIES—UNDER FIRE AT THE BATTLE OF THE TCHERNAYA—WORK ON THE FIELD—MY PATIENTS.
CHAPTER XVII: INSIDE SEBASTOPOL—THE LAST BOMBARDMENT OF SEBASTOPOL—ON CATHCART’S HILL—RUMOURS IN THE CAMP—THE ATTACK ON THE MALAKHOFF—THE OLD WORK AGAIN—A SUNDAY EXCURSION—INSIDE “OUR” CITY—I AM TAKEN FOR A SPY, AND THEREAT LOSE MY TEMPER—I VISIT THE REDAN, ETC.—MY SHARE OF THE “PLUNDER.”
CHAPTER XVIII: HOLIDAY IN THE CAMP—A NEW ENEMY, TIME—AMUSEMENTS IN THE CRIMEA—MY SHARE IN THEM—DINNER AT SPRING HILL—AT THE RACES—CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE BRITISH HOTEL—NEW YEAR’S DAY IN THE HOSPITAL.
CHAPTER XIX: NEW YEAR IN THE CRIMEA—GOOD NEWS—THE ARMISTICE—BARTER WITH THE RUSSIANS—WAR AND PEACE—TIDINGS OF PEACE—EXCURSIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE CRIMEA—TO SIMPHEROPOL, BAKTCHISERAI, ETC.—THE TROOPS BEGIN TO LEAVE THE CRIMEA—FRIENDS’ FAREWELLS—THE CEMETERIES—WE REMOVE FROM SPRING HILL TO BALACLAVA—ALARMING SACRIFICE OF OUR STOCK—A LAST GLIMPSE OF SEBASTOPOL—HOME!
CONCLUSION.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Preface by the Author
Introduction By The Editor
CHAPTER 1: Childhood.
CHAPTER II: The New Master And Mistress.
CHAPTER III: The Slaves’ New Year’s Day.
CHAPTER IV: The Slave Who Dared To Feel Like A Man.
CHAPTER V: The Trials Of Girlhood.
CHAPTER VI: The Jealous Mistress.
CHAPTER VII: The Lover.
CHAPTER VIII: What Slaves Are Taught To Think Of The North.
CHAPTER IX: Sketches Of Neighboring Slaveholders.
CHAPTER X: A Perilous Passage In The Slave Girl’s Life.
CHAPTER XI: The New Tie To Life.
CHAPTER XII: Fear Of Insurrection.
CHAPTER XIII: The Church And Slavery.
CHAPTER XIV: Another Link To Life.
CHAPTER XV: Continuous Persecutions
CHAPTER XVI: Scenes At The Plantation.
CHAPTER XVII: The Flight.
CHAPTER XVIII: Months Of Peril.
CHAPTER XIX: The Children Sold.
CHAPTER XX: New Perils.
CHAPTER XXI: The Loophole Of Retreat.
CHAPTER XXII: Christmas Festivities.
CHAPTER XXIII: Still In Prison.
CHAPTER XXIV: The Candidate For Congress.
CHAPTER XXV: Competition In Cunning.
CHAPTER XXVI: Important Era In My Brother’s Life.
CHAPTER XXVII: New Destination For The Children.
CHAPTER XXVIII: Aunt Nancy.
CHAPTER XXIX: Preparations For Escape.
CHAPTER XXX: Northward Bound.
CHAPTER XXXI: Incidents In Philadelphia.
CHAPTER XXXII: The Meeting Of Mother And Daughter.
CHAPTER XXXIII: A Home Found.
CHAPTER XXXIV: The Old Enemy Again.
CHAPTER XXXV: Prejudice Against Color.
CHAPTER XXXVI: The Hairbreadth Escape.
CHAPTER XXXVII: A Visit To England.
CHAPTER XXXVIII: Renewed Invitations To Go South.
CHAPTER XXXIX: The Confession.
CHAPTER XL: The Fugitive Slave Law.
CHAPTER XLI: Free At Last.
APPENDIX.
The Autobiography of Mother Jones
Introduction by Clarence Darrow
CHAPTER I: Early Years
CHAPTER II: The Haymarket Tragedy
CHAPTER III: A Strike in Virginia
CHAPTER IV: Wayland’s Appeal to Reason
CHAPTER V: Victory at Arnot
CHAPTER VI: War in West Virginia
CHAPTER VII: A Human Judge
CHAPTER VIII: Roosevelt Sent for John Mitchell
CHAPTER IX: Murder in West Virginia
CHAPTER X: The March of the Mill Children
CHAPTER XI: Those Mules Won’t Scab Today
CHAPTER XII: How the Women Mopped Up Coaldale
CHAPTER XIII: The Cripple Creek Strike
CHAPTER XIV: Child Labor
CHAPTER XV: Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone
CHAPTER XVI: The Mexican Revolution
CHAPTER XVII: How the Women Sang Themselves Out of Jail
CHAPTER XVIII: Victory in West Virginia
CHAPTER XIX: Guards and Gunmen
CHAPTER XX: Governor Hunt
CHAPTER XXI: In Rockefeller’s Prisons
CHAPTER XXII: “You Don’t Need a Vote to Raise Hell”
CHAPTER XXIII: A West Virginia Prison Camp
CHAPTER XXIV: The Steel Strike of 1919
CHAPTER XXV: Struggle and Lose: Struggle and Win
CHAPTER XXVI: Medieval West Virginia
CHAPTER XXVII: Progress in Spite of Leaders
A Daughter of the Samurai
CHAPTER I: WINTERS IN ECHIGO
CHAPTER II: CURLY HAIR
CHAPTER III: DAYS OF KAN
CHAPTER IV: THE OLD AND THE NEW
CHAPTER V: FALLING LEAVES
CHAPTER VI: A SUNNY NEW YEAR
CHAPTER VII: THE WEDDING THAT NEVER WAS
CHAPTER VIII: TWO VENTURES
CHAPTER IX: THE STORY OF A MARIONETTE
CHAPTER X: THE DAY OF THE BIRD
CHAPTER XI: MY FIRST JOURNEY
CHAPTER XII: TRAVEL EDUCATION
CHAPTER XIII: FOREIGNERS
CHAPTER XIV: LESSONS
CHAPTER XV: HOW I BECAME A CHRISTIAN
CHAPTER XVI: SAILING UNKNOWN SEAS
CHAPTER XVII: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
CHAPTER XVIII: STRANGE CUSTOMS
CHAPTER XIX: THINKING
CHAPTER XX: NEIGHBORS
CHAPTER XXI: NEW EXPERIENCES
CHAPTER XXII: FLOWER IN A STRANGE LAND
CHAPTER XXIII: CHIYO
CHAPTER XXIV: IN JAPAN AGAIN
CHAPTER XXV: OUR TOKYO HOME
CHAPTER XXVI: TRAGIC TRIFLES
CHAPTER XXVII: HONORABLE GRANDMOTHER
CHAPTER XXVIII: SISTER'S VISIT
CHAPTER XXIX: A LADY OF OLD JAPAN
CHAPTER XXX: THE WHITE COW
CHAPTER XXXI: WORTHLESS TREASURES
CHAPTER XXXII: THE BLACK SHIPS
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
The Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
CHAPTER I: EARLIEST MEMORIES
CHAPTER II: A CATHOLIC HOUSEHOLD
CHAPTER III: PAULINE ENTERS THE CARMEL
CHAPTER IV: FIRST COMMUNION AND CONFIRMATION
CHAPTER V: VOCATION OF THÉRÈSE
CHAPTER VI: A PILGRIMAGE TO ROME
CHAPTER VII: THE LITTLE FLOWER ENTERS THE CARMEL
CHAPTER VIII: PROFESSION OF SOEUR THÉRÈSE
CHAPTER IX: THE NIGHT OF THE SOUL
CHAPTER X: THE NEW COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER XI: A CANTICLE OF LOVE
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