i The Election of 1860 and the Coming of War
ii The Negro's Response to the War, 1861
iii The Drive for Emancipation: The Northern Scene, 1861-65
iv Emancipation in the South, 1861-65
v Anti-Negro Mob Violence in the North, 1862-63
vii The Negro's Response to the Charge of Racial Inferiority
viii Government, Philanthropy, and the Freedmen
ix Negro Missions to the Freedmen
x Negro Contributions to the Union War Effort
xi Negro Troops in the Union Army: Initiation of a Policy, 1862-63
xii Black Troops from the North
xiii Negro Soldiers Prove Themselves in Battle, 1863
xiv The Struggle for Equal Pay
xv Negro Soldiers in the Union Army, 1863-64
xvi Black Troops in the Final Year of War
xvii The Confederate Decision to Raise a Negro Army, 1864-65
xviii Civil Rights and Desegregation in the North
xix Wartime Discussions of Reconstruction and Negro Suffrage
xxi The Negro's Attitude Toward Lincoln, 1864-65
xxii The Negro Faces the Future
Appendix A: Negro and White Population of the United States in 1860
Appendix B: Negro and White Population of Selected American Cities in 1860