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| Illustrations | vii | |
| Foreword | xi | |
| Acknowledgments | xiii | |
| The Descendants of Sally Thomas | xvi | |
| Prologue | 1 | |
| 1 | Sally Thomas: A Life in Bondage | 11 |
| Virtual Freedom | 14 | |
| Sally's Children | 16 | |
| Sally's Son James | 23 | |
| Sally's Grandchildren: The Rapier Boys | 34 | |
| 2 | From Slavery to Freedom | 46 |
| The Domestic Slave Trade | 48 | |
| James Thomas: The Boyhood Years | 54 | |
| Barbershop | 63 | |
| 3 | Travels in the North and West | 75 |
| Nashville's Black Community | 86 | |
| The Changing Attitudes of Whites | 92 | |
| A Fugitive Slave in the North | 95 | |
| The California Gold Rush | 99 | |
| The Epidemic's Shadow | 108 | |
| 4 | In Search of Canaan | 117 |
| Bound for Nicaragua | 119 | |
| The Dilemma of John Rapier Sr. | 126 | |
| The Minnesota Territory | 135 | |
| Canada West and James Thomas Rapier | 142 | |
| 5 | The Midwest, Haiti, and Jamaica | 163 |
| Into "Bleeding Kansas" | 167 | |
| Steamboating on the Mississippi | 169 | |
| John Rapier Jr. in the Caribbean | 180 | |
| 6 | This Mighty Scourge of War | 193 |
| James Thomas in St. Louis | 194 | |
| John Rapier Jr.'s Continuing Odyssey | 203 | |
| The War's End | 219 | |
| Epilogue | 229 | |
| Afterword: Through the Prism of a Black Family | 249 | |
| About the Sources | 262 | |
| Appendix 1 | Petitions of Ephraim Foster and James Thomas to the Davidson County Court, 1851 | 268 |
| Appendix 2 | John Rapier Sr. to Richard Rapier, April 8, 1845 | 273 |
| Appendix 3 | John Rapier Jr. to James Thomas, July 28, 1861 | 276 |
| Selected Bibliography on Slavery | 281 | |
| Index | 283 |
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