To wake the nations: race in the making of American literature

pt. 1. Slavery, revolution, renaissance

Signs of power : Nat Turner and Frederick Douglass

Melville, Delany, and New World slavery

pt. 2. The color line

Mark Train and Homer Plessy

Charles Chesnutt's cakewalk

pt. 3. W.E.B. Du Bois : African America and the kingdom of culture

Swing low : the souls of black folk

The spell of Africa.