From Africa to America: some early African history and culture, the different peoples of Africa, slave territory, people in chains, aboard ship: the "middle passage," millions and millions of slaves, slavery and three continents
The gradual development of slavery: early negro arrivals, "twenty negars," indentured servants, the importance of color, slavery blossoms
Revolution, liberty, and slavery: a disturbing contradiction, a man's a man, slaveholders as censors, fighting to fight, negroes fighting, the fruit of revolution, applying the brakes, a poet and an astronomer
The spread and growth of slavery: in the doldrums, slavery spreads westward, a religious protest, a rapid increase, slave smuggling, slave breeding
Plantation slavery: slave ownership, organization of the big plantations, the slave codes, field slaves at work, food, clothing, and shelter, recreation and worship, house slaves, slave children
Urban slaves: domestic slaves, slaves as skilled workers, industrial slaves, a difference of opinion, training for inferiority
The free negro population: its sources and growth, location and ancestry, how free was free?, making a living, education of free negroes
Slave resistance to slavery: individual resistance, organized resistance, Gabriel's insurrection, some minor revolts, Denmark Vesey, "ole Nat's war," after "ole Nat's war"
Negroes in the abolition crusade: in the beginning, black and white together, some negro speakers and writers, the underground railroad
Negroes in the Civil War: the slaveholder's rebel, negro soldiers, in the Navy, on the home front
Freedom and suffering: moving into freedom, joy and grief, relief and rehabilitation, education for freedmen
Reconstruction and hope: problems of readjustment, the southern plan of reconstruction, congressional reconstruction, southern education before the war, reconstruction in education, reconstruction in religion
How the negro lost political power: no economic base for power, a bitter political struggle, violence against the negro, a cordial understanding, home rule, taking away the negro's vote
The coming of segregation: before segregation, a substitute for slavery
World War I and the twenties: the depths of segregation, enlistment and training, fighting abroad, working and fighting at home, the rising demand for freedom
Economics and politics: the great depression, new deal agencies, a political comeback
World war II and the four freedoms: on the home front, negroes in military service, the problem of morale, the fifth freedom
The rise of the black ghetto: the great migration, a struggle for housing, an invisible Berlin wall
Canceling the lease: segregation unconstitutional, the negro revolt, the sit-ins, the freedom rides, a midsummer's nightmare, the prayer marches, the war of poverty
Freedom: an evaluated inventory: education, income, employment, and housing, political power, failure of the antipoverty war, ghetto riots, the Vietnam War and civil rights, black power, Malcolm X and King, the poor people's march.
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