Contents

INTRODUCTION

PRELUDE: SLAVERY’S CAPITAL

PART I: EMANCIPATION AND RECONSTRUCTION

  1.  THE YEAR OF JUBILEE

  2.  RECONSTRUCTING CHARLESTON IN THE SHADOW OF SLAVERY

PART II: JIM CROW RISING

  3.  SETTING JIM CROW IN STONE

  4.  CRADLE OF THE LOST CAUSE

PART III: JIM CROW ERA

  5.  BLACK MEMORY IN THE IVORY CITY

  6.  AMERICA’S MOST HISTORIC CITY

  7.  THE SOUNDS OF SLAVERY

  8.  WE DON’T GO IN FOR SLAVE HORRORS

PART IV: CIVIL RIGHTS ERA AND BEYOND

  9.  WE SHALL OVERCOME

10.  SEGREGATING THE PAST

CONCLUSION: DENMARK VESEY’S GARDEN

AFTERWORD: THE SAVING GRACE OF THE EMANUEL NINE?

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

NOTES

IMAGE CREDITS

INDEX