# There was once a slave ...

Author: Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1896-1977

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75237

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=There+was+once+a+slave+...+Du+Bois&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

They told him that he was a slave, that he must bend his back, walk low, with eyes cast down, think not at all and sleep without a dream. But every beat of hoe against a twisted root, each narrow furrow reaching toward the hill, flight of a bird across the open field, creak of the ox-cart in the road--all spoke to him of freedom.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER FOUR](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWELVE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FIVE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER NINE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER EIGHT](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SIXTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SEVENTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER EIGHTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THIRTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER ELEVEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SEVEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWENTY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER ONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWO](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FIFTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THREE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER NINETEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FOURTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/20/index.md)
- [PART IV · TOWARD MORNING](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/10/index.md)
- [PART II · THE LIGHTNING](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART I · THE ROAD](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART III · THE STORM](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/there-was-once-a-slave-75237/chapters/21/index.md)