Prelude: the man who came back -- "Feloniously inveigling" : a judgment on the kidnapping of doctor -- The Reverend Lowery's story based on facts -- "Speaks plausibly" the Reverend and his runaway advertisement -- Henry Foreman's boarding house census report of 1850 -- "A genuine article" : Harriet Beecher Stowe's letter to her sister -- Race : United States. The addendum to New Brunswick's census of 1851 -- The experience of a slave in South Carolina by John Andrew Jackson -- The white preacher and the black slave lecturer, Jackson's pamphlet of 1865 -- "One thousand acres" -- "Hard labor," court minutes from Surry County, NC

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