Prologue: Henry Ossawa Tanner, "Negro painter"
Introduction: Creativity and racism in the nineteenth century
Of the father and of the son: the rise of Benjamin and Henry Tanner
Into the south and across the sea: Atlanta and Paris beckon
The American interlude: race and religion on canvas
Crossing over Jordan: salon triumph and spiritual crisis
A salon master in a modern century
The Great War, the new Negro, and the celestial city
Epilogue: The redemption of memory.