Burnley at Orange Grove
Burnley's emergence
Burnley's schooling
Burnley's entrance to Trinidad
The coming of Ralph Woodford
Opposition to emancipation from Tacarigua
Toward planter control of the colony
Life on the plantation
Burnley's ascendancy
Declaration of Independence
Brighter horizons
Monstrous unnatural results
Opinions on slavery and emancipation
The politics of compensation
The new society
Preparing for emancipation
Burnley's views on apprenticeship
Apprenticeship : making it work for him
The virtues of land possession
An artful enemy
Changing fortunes
Burnley's immigration initiatives
The road to prosperity
Burnley's changing racial rhetoric
A continuing quest for labor
Visiting family in Virginia
Burnley and the question of free labor
The evil of squatting
Policing the Negroes
Waging war against Africans
Domestic matters
Land occupation
The new order of things
The great railway debate
Toward modernity
The agony of despair
Burnley's callousness
The voice of the people
Burnley's declining significance
Living like a lord
The laborers' rebellion
Burnley confronted
Revolutionary ideas
A new consciousness
The island of Babel
Fading glory
Cessation
Resurgam.