Author’s place of birth--Description of country--Its inhabitants--Genealogical trees--Method of counting time in slave districts--Date of author’s birth--Names of grandparents--Their cabin--Home with them--Slave practice of separating mothers from their children--Author’s recollections of his mother--Who was his father? 25 Author’s early home--Its charms--Author’s ignorance of “old master”--His gradual perception of the truth concerning him-- His relations to Col. Edward Lloyd--Author’s removal to “old master’s” home--His journey thence--His separation from his grandmother--His grief 28…
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