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CONTENTS—Volume I
| Chapter | Page | |
| I. | First Notions of Africa | 3 |
| II. | The American Negro and the Native African | 18 |
| III. | The African at Home | 36 |
| IV. | The West Coast Background of the American Negro | 57 |
| V. | The First and Last Slave Ship | 85 |
| VI. | The First Slaves | 107 |
| VII. | The Indian and the Negro | 125 |
| VIII. | The Negro's Life in Slavery | 144 |
| IX. | Slave Insurrections and the Negro "Peril" | 171 |
| X. | The Free Negro in Slavery Days | 192 |
| XI. | Fugitive Slaves | 215 |
| XII. | Negro Settlements in Ohio and the Northwest Territory |
233 |
| XIII. | The Negro Preacher and the Negro Church | 251 |
| XIV. | The Negro Abolitionists | 279 |
| XV. | The Negro Soldier's Fight for Freedom | 310 |

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