| List of Illustrations | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Middle Passages, Middlemen: Europe, Africa, America, and the Slave Trade | p. 3 |
| Many Thousands Born: The Roots of African America | p. 53 |
| Slaves and Citizens: African America in the Age of Revolution | p. 89 |
| "A New Birth of Freedom": The Destruction of Slavery and Reconstruction of Black Life | p. 133 |
| Regtime: Race and Nation at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century | p. 185 |
| "A Second Emancipation": The Great Migrations of the Twentieth Century | p. 237 |
| "A Second Reconstruction": The Freedom Movement | p. 285 |
| Citizens of the Nation, Citizens of the World: African America in the Twenty-first Century | p. 331 |
| Notes | p. 365 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 417 |
| Index | p. 421 |