• The goophered grapevine
• Po' Sandy
• Mars Jeems's nightmare
• Sis' Becky's pickaninny
• The wife of his youth
• The sheriff's children
• A matter of principle
• The passing of grandison
• Uncle Wellington's wives
• The web of circumstance
• Dave's neckliss
• Baxter's Procrustes
• The marrow of tradition
• What is a white man?
• The disfranchisement of the Negro
• Post-bellum, pre-Harlem.

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• 12. The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865-1868.
• 13. The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction. PART IV. SEARCHING FOR SAFE SPACES.
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• 18. The Great Depression and the New Deal.
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• 1. Africa.
• 2. Middle Passage.
• 3. Black People in Colonial North America, 1526-1763.
• 4. Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763-1783.
• 5. African Americans in the New Nation, 1783-1820. PART II. SLAVERY, ABOLITION, AND THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM: THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1793-1861.
• 6. Life in the Cotton Kingdom.
• 7. Free Black People in Antebellum America.
• 8. Opposition to Slavery, 1800-1833.
• 9. Let Your Motto Be Resistance, 1833-1850.
• 10. "And Black People Were at the Heart of It": The United States Disunites Over Slavery. PART III. THE CIVIL WAR, EMANCIPATION, AND BLACK RECONSTRUCTION: THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
• 11. Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War.
• 12. The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865-1868.
• 13. The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction.
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• The conjure woman
• The wife of his youth and other stories of the color line
• The house behind the cedars
• The marrow of tradition
• Uncollected stories
• Selected essays.

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• African origins : "I got my religion from out of the sun"
• The transatlantic journey : "I don't care where you bury my body"
• African resistance to enslavement : "Dark clouds a'risin'"
• The great enslavement : "De udder worl' is not like dis"
• Remembering and organizing : "And before I'd be a slave"
• The gathering of freedom fighters : "All my troubles will soon be over with"
• The Civil War : "My Lord gwineter to rain down fire"
• The promise of reconstruction : "Swing low, sweet chariot"
• A new repression cometh : "Now ain't them hard trials"
• In defiance of segregatiion : "And still we rise"
• The era of demonstrative protest : "Great day, great day, the righteous marching"
• The transforming of America : "Before this time another year"
• Social and economic realities : "Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel"
• Dates to remember.