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Index
Dedication
Contents
Epigraph
Three Notes about Language
Part I: A Day like No Other
One: “Those Monsters in Human Form”
The First New Yorkers
Two: Stray Dogs and Pickpockets
Slavery in the North
Timeline: The End of Slavery in Northern States
Three: A City Divided by Race
What Was Jim Crow?
Four: “I Screamed Murder with All My Voice”
Five: “You Will Sweat for This!”
Six: An Admired Family
Frederick Douglass and the Black Press
Who Should Go to School?
Seven: A “Shameful” and “Loathsome” Issue
Trying to Make a Difference
William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator
Horace Greeley and the New York Daily Tribune
Eight: A Future U.S. President
The Fugitive Slave Act
Chester A. Arthur: His Early Years
Nine: Elizabeth Jennings v. Third Avenue Railroad Company
Getting to Brooklyn
Ten: The Jury’s Decision
Part II: A Forgotten Hero
Eleven: An Uncanny Similarity to Rosa Parks
Twelve: What Happened to Elizabeth Jennings?
The Civil War Draft Riots
The First Free Kindergarten for Colored Children in New York City
Thirteen: How a Creepy Old House Led to the Writing of This Book
Fourteen: Retracing Her Footsteps
Postscript: Chester A. Arthur: Tragedy Leads to Presidency
Bibliography
Notes
Author’s Note about Elizabeth Jennings’s Age in 1854
Suggested Reading
Elizabeth Jennings’s Life within a Historical Timeline
Important Locations
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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