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Tables of Contents for Jubilee
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
I. Sis Hetta's Child---The Ante-Bellum Years
Death is a mystery that only the squinch owl knows
3
15
Along the Big Road in Egypt's land . . .
18
20
``Flee as a bird to your mountain''
38
17
Brother Zeke: ``I am a poor way-faring stranger''
55
3
Grimes: ``Cotton is king!''
58
12
Marse John's dinner party
70
11
Cook in the Big House
81
9
Randall Ware
90
7
Springtime is sallet time
97
5
Wedding in the Big House and love in the cornfields
102
16
Fourth of July celebration
118
9
She has the letter ``R'' branded on her face
127
2
Harvest time
129
8
``There's a star in the East on Christmas morn''
137
11
Freedom is a secret word I dare not say
148
8
Get a man to buy my time out
156
8
Put on men's clothes and a man's old cap
164
7
Seventy-five lashes on her naked back
171
6
II. ``Mine eyes have seen the Glory''---The Civil War Years
``John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave''
177
7
This pot is boiling over and the fat is in the fire
184
4
The Vernal Equinox of 1861
188
5
Don't make them come and get you! Volunteer!
193
6
We'll be back home before breakfast is over
199
9
They made us sing ``Dixie''
208
5
Chickamauga---River of Death
213
9
Can you forge?
222
6
Down with the shackle and up with the star!
228
3
Shall be forever free
231
10
Mister Lincoln is our Moses
241
4
Action at Olustee
245
5
Pensive on her dead gazing
250
3
Confederate specie
253
6
General Sherman is in Georgia
259
2
What's that I smell?
261
7
``We'll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree''
268
8
A noise like thunder...a cloud of dust
276
11
The honor of this house...
287
5
My name is Innis Brown
292
6
What you waiting here for?
298
5
One more Christmas on the old home place
303
12
III. ``Forty years in the wilderness''---Reconstruction and Reaction
Two weeks in the wagon
315
6
Bound for Alabama
321
6
Wiregrass country in the Alabama bottoms
327
15
Forty acres and a mule
342
10
New land and higher ground
352
11
Brand-new house with windows from the mill
363
15
Bad luck and hard times
378
11
Ku Klux Klan don't like no Koons
389
7
Keep the niggers from the polls and we'll return to White Home Rule!
396
2
Burned out and running for our lives twice in a row
398
15
Don't look like free schools and land reform is ever coming
413
5
Where's the money coming from?
418
7
I reckon I can be a granny in a pinch
425
11
We got new neighbors now
436
6
Freedom don't mean nothing, him allus driving and whupping me to work!
442
18
The blackest man I ever did see
460
10
What will happen to poor colored folks now?
470
20
Howdy and goodbye, honey-boy!
490