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| Editor's Preface | |
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| Introductory | |
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| Ancestry | |
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| The Northup Family | |
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| Birth and Parentage | |
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| Mintus Northup | |
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| Marriage with Anne Hampton | |
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| Good Resolutions | |
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| Champlain Canal | |
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| Rafting Excursion to Canada | |
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| Farming | |
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| The Violin | |
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| Cooking | |
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| Removal to Saratoga | |
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| Parker and Perry | |
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| Slaves and Slavery | |
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| The Children | |
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| The Beginning of Sorrow | |
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| The two Strangers | |
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| The Circus Company | |
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| Departure from Saratoga | |
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| Ventriloquism and Legerdemain | |
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| Journey to New-York | |
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| Free Papers | |
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| Brown and Hamilton | |
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| The haste to reach the Circus | |
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| Arrival in Washington | |
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| Funeral of Harrison | |
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| The Sudden Sickness | |
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| The Torment of Thirst | |
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| The Receding Light | |
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| Insensibility | |
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| Chains and Darkness | |
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| Painful Meditations | |
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| James H. Burch | |
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| Williams' Slave Pen in Washington | |
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| The Lackey, Radburn | |
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| Assert my Freedom | |
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| The Anger of the Trader | |
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| The Paddle and Cat-o'-nine-tails | |
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| The Whipping | |
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| New Acquaintances | |
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| Ray, Williams, and Randall | |
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| Arrival of Little Emily and her Mother in the Pen | |
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| Maternal Sorrows | |
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| The Story of Eliza | |
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| Eliza's Sorrows | |
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| Preparation to Embark | |
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| Driven Through the Streets of Washington | |
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| Hail, Columbia | |
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| The Tomb of Washington | |
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| Clem Ray | |
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| The Breakfast on the Steamer | |
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| The happy Birds | |
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| Aquia Creek | |
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| Fredericksburgh | |
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| Arrival in Richmond | |
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| Goodin and his Slave Pen | |
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| Robert, of Cincinnati | |
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| David and his Wife | |
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| Mary and Lethe | |
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| Clem's Return | |
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| His subsequent Escape to Canada | |
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| The Brig Orleans | |
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| James H. Burch | |
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| Arrival at Norfolk | |
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| Frederick and Maria | |
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| Arthur, the Freeman | |
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| Appointed Steward | |
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| Jim, Cuffee, and Jenny | |
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| The Storm | |
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| Bahama Banks | |
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| The Calm | |
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| The Conspiracy | |
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| The Long Boat | |
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| The Small-Pox | |
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| Death of Robert | |
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| Manning, the Sailor | |
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| The Meeting in the Forecastle | |
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| The Letter | |
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| Arrival at New-Orleans | |
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| Arthur's Rescue | |
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| Theophilus Freeman, the Consignee | |
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| Platt | |
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| First Night in the New-Orleans Slave Pen | |
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| Freeman's Industry | |
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| Cleanliness and Clothes | |
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| Exercising in the Show Room | |
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| The Dance | |
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| Bob, the Fiddler | |
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| Arrival of Customers | |
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| Slaves Examined | |
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| The Old Gentleman of New-Orleans | |
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| Sale of David, Caroline, and Lethe | |
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| Parting of Randall and Eliza | |
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| Small-Pox | |
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| The Hospital | |
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| Recovery and Return to Freeman's Slave Pen | |
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| The Purchaser of Eliza, Harry, and Platt | |
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| Eliza's Agony on Parting from Little Emily | |
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| The Steamboat Rodolph | |
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| Departure from New-Orleans | |
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| William Ford | |
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| Arrival at Alexandria, on Red River | |
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| Resolutions | |
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| The Great Pine Woods | |
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| Wild Cattle | |
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| Martin's Summer Residence | |
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| The Texas Road | |
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| Arrival at Master Ford's | |
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| Rose | |
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| Mistress Ford | |
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| Sally and her Children | |
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| John, the Cook | |
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| Walter, Sam, and Antony | |
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| The Mills on Indian Creek | |
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| Sabbath Days | |
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| Sam's Conversion | |
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| The Profit of kindness | |
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| Rafting | |
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| Adam Taydem, the Little White Man | |
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| Cascalla and his Tribe | |
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| The Indian Ball | |
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| John M. Tibeats | |
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| The Storm approaching | |
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| Ford's Embarrassments | |
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| The Sale to Tibeats | |
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| The Chattel Mortgage | |
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| Mistress Ford's Plantation on Bayou Boeuf | |
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| Description of the Latter | |
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| Ford's Brother-in-law, Peter Tanner | |
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| Meeting with Eliza | |
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| She still Mourns for her Children | |
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| Ford's Overseer, Chapin | |
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| Tibeats' Abuse | |
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| The Keg of Nails | |
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| The First Fight with Tibeats | |
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| His Discomfiture and Castigation | |
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| The attempt to Hang me | |
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| Chapin's Interference and Speech | |
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| Unhappy Reflections | |
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| Abrupt Departure of Tibeats, Cook, and Ramsey | |
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| Lawson and the Brown Mule | |
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| Message to the Pine Woods | |
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| The Hot Sun | |
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| Yet bound | |
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| The Cords sink into my Flesh | |
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| Chapin's Uneasiness | |
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| Speculation | |
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| Rachel, and her Cup of Water | |
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| Suffering increases | |
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| The Happiness of Slavery | |
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| Arrival of Ford | |
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| He cuts the Cords which bind me, and takes the Rope from my Neck | |
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| Misery | |
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| The gathering of the Slaves in Eliza's Cabin | |
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| Their Kindness | |
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| Rachel Repeats the Occurrences of the Day | |
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| Lawson entertains his Companions with an Account of his Ride | |
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| Chapin's apprehensions of Tibeats | |
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| Hired to Peter Tanner | |
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| Peter expounds the Scriptures | |
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| Description of the Stocks | |
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| Return to Tibeats | |
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| Impossibility of pleasing him | |
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| He attacks me with a Hatchet | |
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| The Struggle over the Broad Axe | |
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| The Temptation to Murder him | |
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| Escape across the Plantation | |
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| Observations from the Fence | |
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| Tibeats approaches, followed by the Hounds | |
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| They take my Track | |
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| Their loud Yells | |
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| They almost overtake me | |
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| I reach the Water | |
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| The Hounds confused | |
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| Moccasin Snakes | |
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| Alligators | |
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| Night in the "Great Pacoudrie Swamp" | |
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| The Sounds of Life | |
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| North-West Course | |
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| Emerge into the Pine Woods | |
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| Slave and his Young Master | |
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| Arrival at Ford's | |
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| Food and Rest | |
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| The Mistress' Garden | |
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| The Crimson and Golden Fruit | |
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| Orange and Pomegranate Trees | |
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| Return to Bayou Boeuf | |
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| Master Ford's Remarks on the way | |
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| The Meeting with Tibeats | |
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| His Account of the Chase | |
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| Ford censures his Brutality | |
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| Arrival at the Plantation | |
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| Astonishment of the Slaves on seeing me | |
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| The anticipated Flogging | |
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| Kentucky John | |
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| Mr. Eldret, the Planter | |
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| Eldret's Sam | |
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| Trip to the "Big Cane Brake" | |
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| The Tradition of "Sutton's Field" | |
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| Forest Trees | |
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| Gnats and Mosquitoes | |
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| The Arrival of Black Women in the Big Cane | |
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| Lumber Women | |
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| Sudden Appearance of Tibeats | |
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| His Provoking Treatment | |
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| Visit to Bayou Boeuf | |
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| The Slave Pass | |
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| Southern Hospitality | |
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| The Last of Eliza | |
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| Sale to Edwin Epps | |
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| Personal Appearance of Epps | |
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| Epps, Drunk and Sober | |
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| A Glimpse of his History | |
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| Cotton Growing | |
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| The Mode of Ploughing and Preparing Ground | |
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| Of Planting, of Hoeing, of Picking, of Treating Raw Hands | |
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| The difference in Cotton Pickers | |
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| Patsey a remarkable one | |
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| Tasked according to Ability | |
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| Beauty of a Cotton Field | |
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| The Slave's Labors | |
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| Fear of Approaching the Gin-House | |
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| Weighing | |
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| "Chores" | |
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| Cabin Life | |
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| The Corn Mill | |
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| The Uses of the Gourd | |
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| Fear of Oversleeping | |
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| Fear continually | |
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| Mode of Cultivating Corn | |
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| Sweet Potatoes | |
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| Fertility of the Soil | |
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| Fattening Hogs | |
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| Preserving Bacon | |
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| Raising Cattle | |
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| Shooting-Matches | |
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| Garden Products | |
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| Flowers and Verdure | |
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| The Curious Axe-Helve | |
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| Symptoms of approaching Illness | |
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| Continue to decline | |
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| The Whip ineffectual | |
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| Confined to the Cabin | |
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| Visit by Dr. Wines | |
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| Partial Recovery | |
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| Failure at Cotton Picking | |
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| What may be heard on Epps' Plantation | |
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| Lashes Graduated | |
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| Epps in a Whipping Mood | |
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| Epps in a Dancing Mood | |
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| Description of the Dance | |
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| Loss of Rest no Excuse | |
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| Epps' Characteristics | |
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| Jim Barns | |
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| Removal from Huff Power to Bayou Boeuf | |
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| Description of Uncle Abram; of Wiley; of Aunt Phebe; of Bob, Henry, and Edward; of Patsey; with a Genealogical Account of each | |
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| Something of their Past History, and Peculiar Characteristics | |
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| Jealousy and Lust | |
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| Patsey, the Victim | |
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| Destruction of the Cotton Crop in 1845 | |
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| Demand for Laborers in St. Mary's Parish | |
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| Sent thither in a Drove | |
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| The Order of the March | |
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| The Grand Coteau | |
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| Hired to Judge Turner on Bayou Salle | |
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| Appointed Driver in his Sugar House | |
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| Sunday Services | |
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| Slave Furniture; how obtained | |
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| The Party at Yarney's, in Centreville | |
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| Good Fortune | |
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| The Captain of the Steamer | |
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| His Refusal to Secrete me | |
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| Return to Bayou Boeuf | |
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| Sight of Tibeats | |
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| Patsey's Sorrows | |
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| Tumult and Contention | |
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| Hunting the Coon and Opossum | |
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| The Cunning of the latter | |
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| The Lean Condition of the Slave | |
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| Description of the Fish Trap | |
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| The Murder of the Man from Natchez | |
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| Epps Chalenged by Marshall | |
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| The Influence of Slavery | |
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| The Love of Freedom | |
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| Labors on Sugar Plantations | |
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| The Mode of Planting Cane | |
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| Of Hoeing Cane | |
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| Cane Ricks | |
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| Cutting Cane | |
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| Description of the Cane Knife | |
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| Winrowing | |
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| Preparing for Succeeding Crops | |
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| Description of Hawkins' Sugar Mill on Bayou Boeuf | |
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| The Christmas Holidays | |
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| The Carnival Season of the Children of Bondage | |
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| The Christmas Supper | |
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| Red, the Favorite Color | |
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| The Violin, and the Consolation it afforded | |
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| The Christmas Dance | |
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| Lively, the Coquette | |
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| Sam Roberts, and his Rivals | |
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| Slave Songs | |
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| Southern Life as it is | |
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| Three Days in the Year | |
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| The System of Marriage | |
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| Uncle Abram's Contempt of Matrimony | |
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| Overseers | |
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| How they are Armed and Accompanied | |
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| The Homicide | |
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| His Execution at Marksville | |
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| Slave Drivers | |
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| Appointed Driver on removing to Bayou Boeuf | |
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| Practice makes perfect | |
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| Epps's Attempt to Cut Platt's Throat | |
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| The Escape from him | |
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| Protected by the Mistress | |
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| Forbids Reading and Writing | |
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| Obtain a Sheet of Paper after Nine Years' Effort | |
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| The Letter | |
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| Armsby, the Mean White | |
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| Partially confide in him | |
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| His Treachery | |
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| Epps' Suspicions | |
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| How they were quieted | |
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| Burning the Letter | |
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| Armsby leaves the Bayou | |
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| Disappointment and Despair | |
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| Wiley disregards the counsels of Aunt Phebe and Uncle Abram, and is caught by the Patrollers | |
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| The Organization and Duties of the latter | |
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| Wiley Runs Away | |
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| Speculations in regard to him | |
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| His Unexpected Return | |
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| His Capture on the Red River, and Confinement in Alexandria Jail | |
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| Discovered by Joseph B. Roberts | |
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| Subduing Dogs in anticipation of Escape | |
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| The Fugitives in the Great Pine Woods | |
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| Captured by Adam Taydem and the Indians | |
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| Augustus killed by Dogs | |
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| Nelly, Eldret's Slave Woman | |
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| The Story of Celeste | |
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| The Concerted Movement | |
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| Lew Cheney, the Traitor | |
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| The Idea of Insurrection | |
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| O'Niel, the Tanner | |
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| Conversation with Aunt Phebe overheard | |
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| Epps in the Tanning Business | |
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| Stabbing of Uncle Abram | |
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| The Ugly Wound | |
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| Epps is Jealous | |
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| Patsey is Missing | |
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| Her Return from Shaw's | |
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| Harriet, Shaw's Black Wife | |
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| Epps Enraged | |
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| Patsey denies his Charges | |
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| She is Tied Down Naked to Four Stakes | |
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| The Inhuman Flogging | |
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| Flaying of Patsey | |
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| The Beauty of the Day | |
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| The Bucket of Salt Water | |
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| The Dress stiff with Blood | |
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| Patsey grows Melancholy | |
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| Her Idea of God and Eternity | |
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| Of Heaven and Freedom | |
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| The Effect of Slave-Whipping | |
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| Epps' Oldest Son | |
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| "The Child is Father to the Man," | |
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| Avery, on Bayou Rouge | |
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| Peculiarity of Dwellings | |
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| Epps builds a New House | |
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| Bass, the Carpenter | |
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| His Noble Qualities | |
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| His Personal Appearance and Eccentricities | |
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| Bass and Epps discuss the Question of Slavery | |
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| Epps' Opinion of Bass | |
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| I make myself known to him | |
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| Our Conversation | |
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| His Surprise | |
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| The Midnight Meeting on the Bayou Bank | |
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| Bass' Assurances | |
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| Declares War against Slavery | |
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| Why I did not Disclose my History | |
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| Bass writes Letters | |
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| Copy of his Letter to Messrs. Parker and Perry | |
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| The Fever of Suspense | |
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| Disappointments | |
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| Bass endeavors to cheer me | |
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| My Faith in him | |
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| Bass faithful to his word | |
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| His Arrival on Christmas Eve | |
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| The Difficulty of Obtaining an Interview | |
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| The Meeting in the Cabin | |
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| Non-arrival of the Letter | |
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| Bass announces his Intention to proceed North | |
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| Christmas | |
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| Conversation between Epps and Bass | |
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| Young Mistress McCoy, the Beauty of Bayou Boeuf | |
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| The "Ne plus ultra" of Dinners | |
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| Music and Dancing | |
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| Presence of the Mistress | |
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| Her Exceeding Beauty | |
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| The Last Slave Dance | |
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| William Pierce | |
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| Oversleep myself | |
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| The Last Whipping | |
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| Despondency | |
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| Cold Morning | |
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| Epps' Threats | |
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| The Passing Carriage | |
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| Strangers approaching through the Cotton-Field | |
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| Last Hour on Bayou Boeuf | |
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| The Letter reaches Saratoga | |
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| Is forwarded to Anne | |
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| Is laid before Henry B. Northup | |
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| The Statute of May 14, 1840 | |
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| Its Provisions | |
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| Anne's Memorial to the Governor | |
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| The affidavits Accompanying it | |
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| Senator Soule's Letter | |
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| Departure of the Agent appointed by the Governor | |
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| Arrival at Marksville | |
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| The Hon. John P. Waddill | |
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| The Conversation on New-York Politics | |
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| It suggests a Fortunate Idea | |
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| The Meeting with Bass | |
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| The Secret out | |
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| Legal Proceedings instituted | |
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| Departure of Northup and the Sheriff from Marksville for Bayou Boeuf | |
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| Arrangements on the Way | |
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| Reach Epps' Plantation | |
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| Discover his Slaves in the Cotton-Field | |
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| The Meeting | |
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| The Farewell | |
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| Arrival in New-Orleans | |
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| Glimpse of Freeman | |
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| Genois, the Recorder | |
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| His Description of Solomon | |
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| Reach Charleston Interrupted by Custom House Officers | |
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| Pass through Richmond | |
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| Arrival in Washington | |
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| Burch Arrested | |
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| Shekels and Thorn | |
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| Their Testimony | |
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| Burch Acquitted | |
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| Arrest of Solomon | |
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| Burch withdraws the Complaint | |
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| The Higher Tribunal | |
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| Departure from Washington | |
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| Arrival at Sandy Hill | |
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| Old Friends and Familiar Scenes | |
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| Proceed to Glens Falls | |
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| Meeting with Anne, Margaret, and Elizabeth | |
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| Solomon Northup Staunton | |
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| Incidents | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix | |