Coming for to carry me home: race in America from abolitionism to Jim Crow

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Prologue: "We Have the Wolf by the Ear"

1. "The Crimes of This Guilty Land Will Never Be Purged Away but with Blood"

2. "Mr. President, You Are Murdering Your Country by Inches"

3. "The Bondsman's Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Unrequited Toil Shall Be Sunk"

4. y"An Ungrateful, Despicable, Besotted Traitorous Man An Incubus"

5. "The Progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant Was Alone Evidence Enough to Upset Darwin"

6. "Radicalism is Dissolving Going to Pieces, but What Is to Take Its Place Does Not Clearly Appear"

7. "We Have Been, as a Class, Grievously Wounded, Wounded in the House of Our Friends"

Epilogue: "We Wear the Mask That Grins and Lies"

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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