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ch. 1. New and alien world: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- ch. 2. Tale of three cities: late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- ch. 3. Survival and other forms of resistance: antebellum years on slave plantations -- ch. 4. Resistance becomes rebellion: antebellum years among free African Americans -- ch. 5. War for freedom: the civil war -- ch. 6. Free women in search of freedom: reconstruction -- ch. 7. Blossoming in hard soil: late nineteenth century -- ch. 8. No mountain too high: early twentieth century -- ch. 9. They carried their freedom bags: the great migration -- ch. 10. Great depression: 1930 through World War II -- ch. 11. Towards freedom: post-war through 1960s -- ch. 12. Caged bird sings: 1970s and 1980s.