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Tables of Contents for Black Americans
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
I Saw a Slave Ship
3
8
Freedom's Journal
11
3
Walker's Appeal
14
3
Nat Turner's Revolt
17
5
Picking Cotton
22
5
Slavery Days
27
9
The ABC's
36
5
Why Am I a Slave?
41
3
A Kidnapping
44
2
A Slave Sale
46
4
Christmas on the Plantation
50
5
On the Underground Railroad
55
2
A Refusal to Pay Taxes
57
3
Let Him Come and Take Me
60
4
What Is Your Fourth of July to Me?
64
2
Is Money the Answer?
66
3
Could I Die in a More Noble Cause?
69
3
Men of Color, to Arms!
72
3
It Was a Glorious Day!
75
5
A Letter from the Front
80
2
To My Old Master
82
4
When Freedom Come
86
4
From Memphis to New Orleans
90
8
I Shall Not Beg for My Rights
98
5
His Crime Was His Color
103
3
KKK
106
5
We Did Not Discriminate
111
3
I Had Reached the Promised Land
114
5
Justice Demands It
119
6
You All Must Live Agreeable
125
3
Exodus
128
7
Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are
135
6
I Want Equality-Nothing Less!
141
2
A Happy Set of People
143
5
No Cowards or Trucklers
148
6
Mob Law in Lincoln's State
154
5
My Soul Is Full of Color
159
8
I Want to Get Out
167
4
My First Lesson
171
7
The One-Room Kitchenette
178
7
We Return-Fighting!
185
4
Black Men, You Shall Be Great Again
189
5
The Right to a Home
194
4
Free Within Ourselves
198
4
This Is Me! I'm Somebody!
202
8
Just Hanging On
210
6
No Rent Money
216
37
Oh Brothers, If You Only Knew
253
4
Tell About Mississippi
257
8
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round
265
5
Don't Nobody Tell Me to Keep Quiet
270
5
That Is All There Is, It's the Work!
275
9
Troubled on Every Side
284
11
A Note on Sources
295
2
Acknowledgments
297
2
Index
299