- List of Illustrations*
- Introduction: A Colored Man’s Constitution
- 1. Black Literacy in the White Mind
- 2. The Private Life of the Literate Slave
- 3. Writing a Life in Slavery and Freedom
- 4. The Written We
- 5. Petition and Protest in the Occupied South
- 6. Black Ink, White Pages
- Conclusion: Up from the South
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Illustrations:
- Facsimile of Thomas Ducket to Jacob Bigelow, February 18, 1850, from Harriet Beecher Stowe, A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Maria Perkins to Richard Perkins, October 8, 1852
- Detail, John Washington’s diary, July 5, 1858
- John Washington, “Memorys of the Past,” page 91
- Detail, Zack Burden to Mr. Abebrem Lenken, February 2, 1865
- William Benjamin Gould’s diary, December 1–7, 1863
- Abram Mercherson to Major General J.G. Foster, August 12, 1864, page 1
- George W.F. Johnson to Genarl Franch, January 7, 1863
- Abram Mercherson to Major General J.G. Foster, August 12, 1864, pages 2–3
- Jordan Johnson to Lucy Chase, May 11, 1869, page 2
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