I. Sis Hetta's Child--The Ante-Bellum Years -- 1 Death is a mystery that only the squinch owl knows 3 -- 2 Along the Big Road in Egypt's land ... 15 -- 3 "Flee as a bird to your mountain" 32 -- 4 Brother Zeke: "I am a poor way-faring stranger" 46 -- 5 Grimes: "Cotton is king!" 49 -- 6 Marse John's dinner party 59 -- 7 Cook in the Big House 68 -- 8 Randall Ware 75 -- 9 Springtime is sallet time 81 -- 10 Wedding in the Big House and love in the cornfields 85 -- 11 Fourth of July celebration 98 -- 12 She has the letter "R" branded on her face 105 -- 13 Harvest time 107 -- 14 "There's a star in the East on Christmas morn" 114 -- 15 Freedom is a secret word I dare not say 123 -- 16 Get a man to buy my time out 130 -- 17 Put on men's clothes and a man's old cap 136 -- 18 Seventy-five lashes on her naked back 142 -- II. "Mine eyes have seen the Glory"--The Civil War Years -- 19 "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave" 149 -- 20 This pot is boiling over and the fat is in the fire 155 -- 21 Vernal Equinox of 1861 158 -- 22 Don't make them come and get you! Volunteer! 162 -- 23 We'll be back home before breakfast is over 167 -- 24 They made us sing "Dixie" 174 -- 25 Chickamauga--River of Death 178 -- 26 Can you forge? 185 -- 27 Down with the shackle and up with the star! 190 -- 28 Shall be forever free 192 -- 29 Mister Lincoln is our Moses 201 -- 30 Action at Olustee 204 -- 31 Pensive on her dead gazing 209 -- 32 Confederate specie 212 -- 33 General Sherman is in Georgia 217 -- 34 What's that I smell? 219 -- 35 "We'll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree" 225 -- 36 A noise like thunder ... a cloud of dust 231 -- 37 Honor of this house ... 240 -- 38 My name is Innis Brown 244 -- 39 What you waiting here for? 249 -- 40 One more Christmas on the old home place 253 -- III. "Forty years in the wilderness"--Reconstruction and Reaction -- 41 Two weeks in the wagon 263 -- 42 Bound for Alabama 268 -- 43 Wiregrass country in the Alabama bottoms 274 -- 44 Forty acres and a mule 286 -- 45 New land and higher ground 294 -- 46 Brand-new house with windows from the mill 303 -- 47 Bad luck and hard times 316 -- 48 Ku Klux Klan don't like no Koons 326 -- 49 Keep the niggers from the polls and we'll return to White Home Rule! 332 -- 50 Burned out and running for our lives twice in a row 334 -- 51 Don't look like free schools and land reform is ever coming 347 -- 52 Where's the money coming from? 351 -- 53 I reckon I can be a granny in a pinch 357 -- 54 We got new neighbors now 366 -- 55 Freedom don't mean nothing, him allus driving and whupping me to work! 371 -- 56 Blackest man I ever did see 386 -- 57 What will happen to poor colored folks now? 394 -- 58 Howdy and goodbye, honey-boy! 411.

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