OCTAVIA
The Octoroon
BY
J. F. LEE, M.D.
THE
Abbey Press
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Copyright, 1900,
by
THE
Abbey Press
in
the
United States
and
Great Britain.
All Rights Reserved.
CONTENTS.
The Prize Fight
A Baptismal Scene
The Birth of Octavia
Almost a Watery Grave
The "Underground Railway"
Mistaken Identity and Escape from Bruin
Liberated
Cotton Prowling—Employing Octavia's Governess
Progress in Studies
Ready for College
In the Red Cross Service
In Foreign Lands—Strategy—Love Conquers
Octavia the Octoroon.
CHAPTER I.
THE PRIZE FIGHT.
Just before the beginning of the civil war between the States there wasa large and valuable plantation on the Alabama River on which therewere several hundred slaves, said farm being in what is known as the"black belt of Alabama," having a river front of several miles, andannually producing five hundred bales of cotton, fifteen thousandbushels of corn, besides oats, wheat, hay, mules, horses, hogs, cattle,sheep and goats in abundance.
This mammoth farm belonged to Hon. R., then a member of the UnitedStates Congress from Alabama, and afterwards a gallant officer in theConfederate army, rising