Slave labor camps in early America / Peter H. Wood -- Abraham H. Galloway / David S. Cecelski -- Negotiating and transforming the public sphere / Elsa Barkley Brown -- "Liberty dearly bought" / Thavolia Glymph -- The new Negro in the American Congo / Nan Elizabeth Woodruff -- Intellectual pan-African feminists / Ula Y. Taylor -- "Eat your bread without butter, but pay your poll tax!" / Paul Ortiz -- "With the aid of God and the F.S.A." / Greta de Jong -- Beyond the "talented tenth" / Brian Kelly -- The power of remembering / Michael Honey -- Being red and Black in Jim Crow America / Winston James -- Building interracial democracy / Tracy E. K'Meyer -- "A bland, scholarly, teetotaling sort of man" / Caroline Emmons -- Leading the civil rights vanguard in South Carolina / Wim Roefs -- A marble house divided / Scott A. Sandage -- "We men ain't we" / Charise Cheney