The lost history of the white slave -- Hush harbor: slaves and the Christian revivals -- The Mulatto flag: interracial love in Antebellum America -- Interregnum: the Civil War -- Memorizing Shakespeare: the Black elite -- Cry at the birth: Jazz and the world it created -- Vicarious lives: the Black firsts -- Lost and looking: Sam Cooke and the miracle of Black pop -- Everywhere: the 60's -- Street legal: the 70's -- The death of coercion