Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Her Voice Can Be Heard
Chapter 1: Inquiry and Epiphany
Chapter 2: Born in Slavery: The Master, the Mistress, and Their Chattel
Chapter 3: The Berkeleys, a Slave Named Harriet Bishop, and Her Daughter, Sarah
Chapter 4: Slavery’s Chain Done Broke at Last
Chapter 5: Colorado and the Promise of Freedom
Chapter 6: From Denver’s Bottoms to P. T. Barnum’s Town
Chapter 7: Education, Politics, and Leisure
Chapter 8: The Frontier in Our Souls
Chapter 9: School, Community, and Love Lost
Chapter 10: A Fly in the Buttermilk: Colorado and the World of Higher Education
Chapter 11: “Goin’ to Kansas City”: Education and Baseball
Chapter 12: It’s Mister Jones, If You Please
Chapter 13: Chicago, Take Two
Chapter 14: “Lincoln Was a Republican, That’s All I Need to Know”
Chapter 15: Coming Home and Going Home
Epilogue: The End of the Living Line
Notes
Index