Heritage of servitude: slave life and labor on the plantation The color of sweat: slave life and labor beyond the plantation Many thousands gone: runaways and contrabands Body and soul: health, education, and religion Yours until death: sex, marriage, and miscegenation A commonwealth of fear: wartime racism and race relations Unequal justice: slaves, free Blacks, and the law Grand and awful times: body servants at war Troublesome elites: free Blacks as minority survivalists Zealots of the wrong: Afro-Confederate loyalism

Uncommon defenders: Confederate States colored troops as the great white hope

Pledging allegiance: the coming of citizenship and the emancipation proclamation

Freedom fighters: Black Union soldiers and spies

Babylon's fall: Afro-Virginians at the gates of freedom.