Preface
1. The Compromise and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Background of the Compromise
2. Black Reaction to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850: Terror in the Black Community
3. Black Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Early Phase
4. Black Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: "Freedom's Battle" at Christiana, Pennsylvania
5. Black Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: The Middle Phase
6. Black Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: The Last Phase
7. Blacks and Uncle Tom's Cabin
8. Black Emigration, 1850–1861 I: Issues and Personalities
9. Black Emigration, 1850–1861 II: Canada, Central America, and Haiti
10. Black Emigration, 1850–1861 III: Africa
11. Kansas-Nebraska, Cuban Annexation, and the Early Republican Party
12. The Dred Scott Case, Its Repercussions, and the Election of 1858
13. Blacks and John Brown
14. Blacks and the Election of 1860
15. The Coming of the Civil War
16. Why the War Came
17. The White Man's War
18. End of the White Man's War
19. Two Proclamations and a Day of Jubilee
20. Men of Color, To Arms!
21. The Home Front—South
22. The Home Front—North
23. The Army and the Freed Slaves, 1863–1864
24. Blacks and Abraham Lincoln, 1863–1864
25. Union Victory
26. Why the North Won
27. Free at Last!
Bibliography and Sources
Index