Preface - The Seaport - Colonists
Portsmouth and the Slave Trade
Sale of Enslaved People
White Fears, Regulation, and Legislation
One Negro Man £200, One Ditto Woman £50: Location, Labor, Value
Skilled Craftspeople
Fortune and James: Invisibility
Hannah, Pomp, Nanne, Violet, Scipio: Agricultural Work
Quamino, Prince, Nero, a Negro Girl, Cato, Peter, John Jack, and Phyllis: The Role of Slavery among the White Colonial Elite
Venus: Decoding Clues
North Church People: Status and Religion
Nero Brewster, Willie Clarkson, Jock Odiorne, Pharaoh Shores: Black Coronations, Internal Status. and Social Control
The Unnamed, Unrecorded Dead: Health, Medicine, Death, Burial
The Cotton and Hunking Families: Family, Women, Marriage
Revolutionary Petitioners: Politics and Freedom
Prince Whipple: Revolution and Freedom
Free Black People in an Era of Slavery
The Long-Range Impacts of the Slave System - Early Americans
"3 Very Old Negroes Almost Good for Nothing": The Plight of the Elderly in Freedom
Prince, Cuffee, Dinah, and Rebecca Whipple: A Sample Family Living in Freedom
Siras Bruce and Flora Stoodley Bruce: New Freedom, Limited Options
Pomp and Candace Spring: A Glimpse of Home and Home Life
Dinah GIbson: Making It on Her Own
Richard Potter: Making an Itinerant Living in Entertainment
Black Marines of Portsmouth: Life at Sea and at Home
Esther Whipple Mullinaux: Kinship and Cluster Diffusion - Abolition
Portsmouth's Continued Participation in Slavery
Frederick Douglass, Charles Lenox Remond, William Wells Brown: Black Abolitionist Orators and the Civil War Years in Portsmouth •"Most of the Colored People of the City, Both Old and Young": Celebrating Emancipation - Community
People's Baptist Church: Spiritual Life, Religious Community
Deacon Haywood Burton: Community Leader
Gearge M. King, Ralph Reed, Albert Auylor: Social Clubs and Political Action
The Klan in Portsmouth
Louis George Gregory and Louisa Matthews Gregory: Spiritual Leaders for Racial Unity
Elizabeth Virgil: Quiet Pioneer, Witness to a Changing World
Owen Finnigan Cooper, Eugene Reid, John Ramsay, Emerson Reed, Doris Moore, Anna Jones: World War II and the Patriotic Service
Rosary Broxay Cooper: Migration, Career Options, Patriotic Service - Civil Rights
Lost Boundaries, Broken Barriers
Thomas CObbs: Making a Living, Making a Difference
Legislating Destruction: Government Policy and the Black Experience
Working Together, Seeking Understanding: The Seacoast Council on Race and Religion - Living with Diversity - Coffins Under the Street: An Afterword
Appendix: Places Associated with Narratives in This Book
Notes
Bibliography
Index