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There Was Once a Slave

by Shirley Graham Du Bois

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Dedication — Epigraph
  3. 3Prologue
  4. 4Part I — Chapter One — Frederick Sets His Feet Upon the Road
  5. 5Chapter Two — The Road Winds About Chesapeake Bay
  6. 6Chapter Three — An Old Man Drives His Mule
  7. 7Chapter Four — Frederick Comes to a Dead End
  8. 8Chapter Five — One More River to Cross
  9. 9Part II — The Lightning
  10. 10Chapter Six — Is This a Thing, or Can It Be a Man?
  11. 11Chapter Seven — Jobs in Washington and Voting in Rhode Island
  12. 12Chapter Eight — On Two Sides of the Atlantic
  13. 13Chapter Nine
  14. 14Chapter Ten — A Light Is Set on the Road
  15. 15Part III — The Storm
  16. 16Chapter Eleven — The Storm Came Up in the West and Birds Flew North
  17. 17Chapter Twelve — An Avenging Angel Brings the Fury of the Storm
  18. 18Chapter Thirteen
  19. 19Chapter Fourteen — Came January 1, 1863
  20. 20Part IV — Chapter Fifteen — When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
  21. 21Chapter Sixteen — Moving Forward
  22. 22Chapter Seventeen — Fourscore Years Ago in Washington
  23. 23Chapter Eighteen
  24. 24Chapter Nineteen — Indian Summer and a Fair Harvest
  25. 25Chapter Twenty — The Môle St. Nicolas
  26. 26Epilogue
  27. 27Bibliography

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