Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Prologue: A Game on the High Seas

PART ONE img IN SIAM

1.  Siam

2.  The Chinese Twins

3.  Cholera

4.  The King and Us

5.  Departure

PART TWO img FIRST YEARS

6.  A Curiosity in Boston

7.  The Monster, or Not

8.  Gotham City

9.  The City of Brotherly Love

10.  Knocking at the Gate

11.  Racial Freaks

12.  Sentimental Education

PART THREE img AMERICA ON THE ROAD

13.  The Great Eclipse

14.  A Satirical Tale

15.  The Lynnfield Battle

16.  An Intimate Rebellion

17.  Old Dominion

18.  Emancipation

19.  A Parable

20.  America on the Road

21.  The Deep South

22.  Head Bumps

PART FOUR img LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL

23.  Wilkesboro

24.  Traphill

25.  A Universal Truth

26.  Foursome

27.  Mount Airy, or Monticello

28.  The Age of Humbugs

29.  Minstrel Freaks

PART FIVE img THE CIVIL WAR AND BEYOND

30.  Seeing the Elephant

31.  Reconstruction

32.  The Last Radiance of the Setting Sun

33.  Afterlife

Epilogue: Mayberry, USA

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index