CHAPTER XV. - Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana

Labors on Sugar Plantations--The Mode of Planting Cane--of

Hoeing Cane--Cane Ricks--Cutting Cane--Description of the Cane

Knife--Winrowing--Preparing for Succeeding Crops--Description of

Hawkins' Sugar Mill on Bayou Boeuf--The Christmas Holidays--The

Carnival Season of the Children of Bondage--The Christmas

Supper--Red, the Favorite Color--The Violin, and the Consolation

it afforded--The Christmas Dance--Lively, the Coquette--Sam

Roberts, and his Rivals--Slave Songs--Southern Life as it

is--Three Days in the Year--The System of Marriage--Uncle Abram's

Contempt of Matrimony, 208