Prologue: The Five Points Race Riot of 1834
Prologue: Nelly Holland Comes to Five Points
Prologue: “The Wickedest House on the Wickedest Street That Ever Existed”
Prologue: The Saga of Johnny Morrow, the Street Peddler
Prologue: “We Will Dirk Every Mother’s Son of You!”
Prologue: “This Phenomenon, ‘Juba’”
Prologue: The Bare-Knuckle Prizefight Between Yankee Sullivan and Tom Hyer
Prologue: “I Shall Never Forget This as Long as I Live”: Abraham Lincoln Visits Five Points
Prologue: “He Never Knew When He Was Beaten”
Prologue: “The Boy Who Commands That Pretty Lot Recruited Them for the Seceshes”
The Civil War and the End of an Era
Prologue: “So It Was Settled That I Should Go to America”
Prologue: “These ‘Slaves of the Harp’”