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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABSTRACT -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER TWO - SLAVES AS CONTRABAND OF WAR -- CHAPTER THREE - THE COMMANDERS TAKE CHARGE -- CHAPTER FOUR - COMMANDERS AND THE CONFLICT OF POLITICS -- CHAPTER FIVE - FIELDS OF COTTON OR FIELDS OF FIRE? -- CHAPTER SIX - THE ROAD TO RECONSTRUCTION -- CHAPTER SEVEN - CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Articles -- Books -- Government Documents -- Periodicals.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword, by Janice Lovelace, PhD -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I. CHEROKEE FREEDMEN -- 1. Henrietta Rogers Austin, by Johnnilyn Kutten -- 2. John "Doc Cousa" Baldridge, by Monyette Hall Ellington -- 3. All Roads Lead to Sarah, by Verna Downing Rogers -- 4. Li'na (ᎵᎿ) Ella Mae Ross, by Anita McGruder-Johnson -- 5. George Vann, by Gwendolyn Montes-Shinault -- PART II. CHOCTAW FREEDMEN -- 6. Grandma Rachael: A Force of Fierceness, by Charlotte Gordon -- 7. Burris, Coleman, Butler, Simpson and Cole, by Doris Burris Williamson -- 8. Between Borderlands: American Habitus, Native Lands, by Michael Tyrone Dean Jr. -- 9. Rose Wilson Oakes, by Melanie S. Midget, DO -- 10. Margaret Ann Wilson: Say Her Name, by Terry J. Ligon -- 11. Discovery of a Studied History, by Jerry Harris Moore -- 12. Walton, Sanders and Perry Families, by Angela Y. Walton-Raji -- 13. A Tale of Two Sisters, by Shelby R.B. Ward -- PART III. CHICKASAW FREEDMEN -- 14. Ardena Darneal: Chickasaw Freedwoman and Choctaw By Blood, by Verdie Triplett -- 15. Simon Love: Chickasaw Community Leader and Entrepreneur, by Sandy Williams Bordenave -- 16. Hatakalusa, by Sandy Williams Bordenave -- 17. Mary Lamey, by Carlotta Kemp Wheeler -- 18. Descendants of Sam, Catherine and Litcy Perry, by Athena Butler -- PART IV. MUSCOGEE CREEK FREEDMEN -- 19. Documenting My Grandmother's Ties, by Grant N. Perryman -- 20. Grace Sells Ford, by Kenneth R. Ford -- 21. America Cohee-Webster, by Rhonda K. Grayson -- 22. Three Adopted Brothers, by Grant N. Perryman -- 23. Eddie Warrior, Creek Freedman and Muskogee Educator, by Edwyna Warrior Triplett -- 24. Barnett-Fields-Johnson Family History, by Gail M. Jackson -- PART V. SEMINOLE FREEDMEN -- 25. Witty Cudjoe, by Caitlin Bella Cudjo -- 26. My Seminole Story, by Saché Primeaux-Shaw

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Hardships of Slaves -- Chapter 1: Slavery and Life on the Plantation -- Chapter 2: Slave Narratives and Famous Writings by Slaves -- Chapter 3: Reactions and Consequences -- Chapter 4: The Legacy of Slave Narratives -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Further Information -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

This book challenges prevailing models of the ways formerly enslaved individuals in Ancient Rome navigated their social and economic landscape. Drawing on the rich epigraphic evidence left behind by municipal freedmen and freedwomen, who had been owned and manumitted by the communities of Roman Italy, it pushes back against ameliorating views of slavery as a temporary condition and positive notions of a prosperous and consciously proud Roman freedman class. Manumission was a far more complex process, and it did not always put former slaves and their descendants on the straight and narrow path of upward mobility