| | Prologue: Looking Out from Slavery | p. 1 |
| | "The Jacobins of the Country" | |
| | Of Chains and Threads | p. 13 |
| | "The Choked Voice of a Race at Last Unloosed" | p. 62 |
| | Of Rumors and Revelations | p. 116 |
| | To Build a New Jerusalem | |
| | Reconstructing the Body Politic | p. 163 |
| | "A Society Turned Bottomside Up" | p. 216 |
| | Of Paramilitary Politics | p. 265 |
| | The Unvanquished | |
| | The Education of Henry Adams | p. 317 |
| | Of Ballots and Biracialism | p. 364 |
| | The Valley and the Shadows | p. 412 |
| | Epilogue: "Up, You Mighty Race" | p. 465 |
| | Black Leaders Data Set | p. 479 |
| | Notes | p. 481 |
| | Acknowledgments | p. 595 |
| | Index | p. 599 |