Table of Content
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
