Tables of Contents for Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends

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Acknowledgments

Preface

xiii

Introduction: ``Beyond the Silence''

Part One: The Early Years

``I've Lost a Day'' 1854-1856

``If you was a man...'' 1859-1860

Part Two: The Civil War Years

``Like meat to a hungre wolfe'' New York, 1861

``Call you my sister'' 1862-1864

Part Three: The Reconstruction Years

190

``There is great excitement about putting money in the bank'' 1865

``Justice, impartial justice...'' Winter/Spring 1866

``I am pleased to hear of the success of those freedmen'' Summer/Fall 1866

127

``We must have a school house'' 1867

157

``The people are quite cheered up & hopeful once more.'' 1868

235

``And all nature is coming forth and clothing herself in beauty and fragrance.'' 1869

257

Afterword

267

Appendix

271

Rebecca Primus in Later Life

279

David O. White

Bibliography

285

Notes

287

Index

295