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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Author’s Note
Prologue • April 1896
Cast of Characters
Part I: Ambition
Chapter 1: Taking Their Seats • Massachusetts, 1838–1843
Chapter 2: Harlan of Kentucky • 1853–1857
Chapter 3: Brown of New England • 1856–1857
Chapter 4: Tourgee of Ohio • 1858–1860
Chapter 5: The Free People of Color • New Orleans, 1860
Part II: War
Chapter 6: “The Harlan Name” • Kentucky, 1858–1862
Chapter 7: “A War of Which No Man Can See the End” • Brown in Detroit, 1860–1864
Chapter 8: “For This I Am Willing to Die” • Tourgee on the March, 1861–1863
Chapter 9: “Claim Your Rights” • New Orleans and Washington, 1863–1864
Part III: Ascent
Chapter 10: Choosing Sides • Harlan in Kentucky, 1865–1871
Chapter 11: “A Taste for Judicial Life” • Brown in Detroit, 1866–1872
Chapter 12: Tourgee Goes South • North Carolina, 1865–1870
Chapter 13: Equal but Separate • New Orleans and the North, 1867–1871
Part IV: Precipice
Chapter 14: “Is Not Harlan the Man?” • Kentucky and Washington, 1875–1878
Chapter 15: “Uncongenial Strifes” • Brown and Tourgee, 1875–1879
Chapter 16: Fool’s Errand • North and South, 1880–1883
Chapter 17: The Color Line Sharpens • 1883–1888
Chapter 18: “The Negro Question” • Mayville, Washington, and New Orleans, 1889–1890
Part V: Resistance
Chapter 19: “In Behalf of 7,999,999 of My Race” • New Orleans, Mayville, Detroit, and Washington, 1890–1891
Chapter 20: Arrest • Mayville and New Orleans, 1892–1893
Chapter 21: “You Are Fighting a Great Battle” • Washington, Mayville, and New Orleans, 1893–1895
Chapter 22: “In the Nature of Things” • March, April, May 1896
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Sources
Index
Also by Steve Luxenberg
Copyright
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