Acknowledgments / xiii
List of Abbreviations / xv
Introduction / 1
CHAPTER ONE
Beginnings: Africans in a New Land / 7
CHAPTER Two
Property Ownership among Slaves, 1800-1865 / 29
CHAPTER THREE
Free Negro Property Owners, 1800-1860 / 61
CHAPTER FOUR
Affluent Free Persons of Color, 1800-1861 / 97
CHAPTER FIVE
Property Ownership among Southern Blacks, 1860-1915 / 143
CHAPTER Six
Prosperous Blacks in the South, 1862-1915 / 185
Epilogue / 233
A Note on Appendixes / 239
APPENDIX ONE
Correspondence / 241
APPENDIX Two
Petitions / 247
APPENDIX THREE
Probate Court Records / 259
APPENDIX FOUR
Tax Assessment Rolls / 271
APPENDIX FIVE
The Manuscript Population Censuses / 281
APPENDIX SIX
Biographical Listing of Prosperous Blacks in the South,
1870s-1915 / 295
APPENDIX SEVEN
A Profile of Prosperous Blacks, 1870s-1915 / 301
Notes / 307
An Essay on Sources and Methodology / 371
A Selected Bibliography of Books and Articles / 393
Index / 411