Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by James W. Dyke, Jr., Tim Sullivan, Alvin J. Schexnider
  • Acknowledgments / by Jamie O. Bosket
  • Introduction / by Elizabeth M. Klaczynski
  • Chapter 1. Black freedom in slaveholding Virginia / by Melvin Patrick Ely
  • Chapter 2. The Christian faith and legacies of liberation in Virginia's free Black society / by Evanda S. Watts-Martinez
  • Chapter 3. Free Black people in rural Virginia: forms of resistance / by Sabrina G. Watson
  • Chapter 4. Joseph Jenkins Roberts, free Black émigrés, and the Liberian experiment / by Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander
  • Chapter 5. Education, politics, and the legacy of free Black Virginians after emancipation / by Stephen Rockenbach
  • Afterword / by Jamie O. Bosket.