Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Introduction 1
Part 1 Broken Home, Beginnings to 1893
Chapter 1 Broken Country 15
Chapter 2 Broken Home 47
Chapter 3 Public Schooling 77
Chapter 4 The Tattler 91
Chapter 5 A Superior Gift 110
Chapter 6 Career Choices 131
Chapter 7 The White City 152
Part 2 A True Singer, 1893 to 1898
Chapter 8 Chafing at Life 173
Chapter 9 The Bond of a Fellow-Craft 188
Chapter 10 Heroine of His Stories 206
Chapter 11 A True Singer 217
Chapter 12 England as Seen by a Black Man 239
Chapter 13 East Coast Strivings 263
Chapter 14 The Way Is Dark 278
Chapter 15 The Wizard of Tuskegee 294
Part 3 The Downward Way, 1898 to 1906
Chapter 16 The Wedding of Plebeians 307
Chapter 17 Our New Madness 327
Chapter 18 Still a Sick Man 351
Chapter 19 A Sac of Bitter Sarcasm 372
Chapter 20 Old Habits Die Hard 390
Chapter 21 The Downward Way 408
Chapter 22 Waiting in Loafing-Holt 421
Epilogue 449
Acknowledgments 461
Notes 467
Index 523