Table of Contents
Preface 9
Acknowledgements 11
Introduction 15
1 1849-50
In the Heat of the Summer 25
A Prejudice against Railroads 33
2 1851-52
The Force Employed 38
Debts Incurred for the Hire of Negroes 40
3 1853
Rented Like a Horse 45
Section Sixteen 52
Economy of Progress 54
4 1854
Masters of Their Masters 57
Blanket and Hat 60
Poor Fellows 65
I Had Him Buried 69
Mysterious Disease 73
5 1855-56
I Regret That We Did Not Hire Negroes 77
Wade in Blood 79
Gruel and Brutal Acts 81
6 1857-58
For the Board of Negroes 85
Fatal Consequences 90
7 1859-65
Ball of Fire 95
Run Off to the Enemy 98
8 1866-95
Alike as Two Peas 102
Servile Insurrection 107
9 1939-2008
I'll Tell You Straight 111
Epilogue 117
Appendix 1 Transcript of Farrow-Hansbrough Contract 119
Appendix 2 Williams Obituaries 121
Appendix 3 Sections, Contractors and Labor Force 123
Appendix 4 Names of Enslaved Laborers 127
Notes 141
Index 153
About the Author 160
