Prologue: Boston, May 29, 1855
Bondage. Constance Cornwell, Prince William County, Virginia, 1805
Prudence Nelson Bell, Nelson's Plantation and Mill, 1826
Jesse and Albert Bell Nelson, Washington, 1847
Henry Williams, Boston, 1850
Manumission. John Albion Andrew, Boston, 1852
Elizabeth Williams, Prince William County, 1852
Evelina Bell, Washington, February 1855
Becoming Ida May. Mary Hayden Green Pike, Calais, Maine, November 1854
Julian Vannerson, Washington, February 1855
Richard Hildreth, Boston, March 1855
Charles Sumner, Washington, February 1855
Sensation. "A white slave from Virginia," New York, March 1855
The Williams family, Boston, March 7, 1855
"Features, skin, and hair," Boston, March 1855
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Worcester, Massachusetts, March 27, 1855
"The antislavery enterprise," Boston, March 29, 1855
Private passages. Private life, Boston, October 1855
"The crime against Kansas," Washington, May 1856
Frederick Douglass, Boston, 1860
Prudence Bell, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1864
Epilogue: Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 2017.