A note on language
Introduction : The bricks we stand on
pt. 1. The slow poison
1. The wedding : fruits of freedom
2. An industrial slavery : "Niggers is cheap"
3. Slavery's increase : "Day after day we looked death in the face & was afraid to speak"
4. Green Cottenham's world : "The negro dies faster"
pt. 2. Harvest of an unfinished war
5. The slave farm of John Pace : "I don't owe you anything"
6. Slavery is not a crime : "We shall have to kill a thousand... to get them back to their places"
7. The indictments : "I was whipped nearly every day"
8. A summer of trials, 1903 : "The master treated the slave unmercifully"
9. A river of anger : the South is "an armed camp"
10. The disapprobation of God : "It is a very rare thing that a negro escapes"
11. New South rising : "This great corporation"


pt. 3. The final chapter of American slavery
13. The arrest of Green Cottenham : a war of atrocities
14. Anatomy of a slave mine : "Degraded to a plane lower than the brutes"
15. Everywhere was death : "Negro quietly swung up by an armed mob... all is quiet"
16. Atlanta, the South's finest city : "I will murder you if you don't do that work"
17. Freedom : "In the United States one cannot sell himself"
Epilogue : The ephemera of catastrophe
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index.