Seduction, rape, concubinage
Courtship and family life
Part II: Free women, 1800-1861
Daughters of Africa/Daughters of America
Women with a special mission
Black women and the impending crisis
Slavery chain done broke at last
Washerwoman, maumas, exodusters, jubileers
Part V: The postwar North
Representative women and a new generation
Part VI: Epilogue: Four women.