| PAGE |
| Memoir of the Author, | [11] |
| The Black Man and his Antecedents, | [31] |
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| THE BLACK MAN, HIS GENIUS AND HIS ACHIEVEMENTS. |
| Benjamin Banneker, | [51] |
| Nat Turner, | [59] |
| Madison Washington, | [75] |
| Henry Bibb, | [86] |
| Placido, | [88] |
| Jeremiah B. Sanderson, | [91] |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture, | [92] |
| Crispus Attucks, | [106] |
| Dessalines, | [110] |
| Ira Aldridge, | [118] |
| Joseph Cinque, | [124] |
| Alexandre Dumas, | [128] |
| Henri Christophe, | [132] |
| Phillis Wheatley, | [138] |
| Denmark Vesey, | [142] |
| Henry Highland Garnett, | [149] |
| James M. Whitfield, | [152] |
| Andre Rigaud, | [153] |
| Frances Ellen Watkins, | [160] |
| Ex-President Roberts, | [163] |
| Alexander Crummell, | [165] |
| Alexandre Petion, | [169] |
| Martin R. Delany, M. D., | [174] |
| Robert Small, | [175] |
| Frederick Douglass, | [180] |
| Charles L. Reason, | [187] |
| Charlotte L. Forten, | [190] |
| William H. Simpson, | [199] |
| Jean Pierre Boyer, | [202] |
| James M'Cune Smith, M. D., | [205] |
| Bishop Payne, | [207] |
| William Still, | [211] |
| Edwin M. Bannister, | [214] |
| Leonard A. Grimes, | [217] |
| President Geffrard, | [220] |
| George B. Vashon, | [223] |
| Robert Morris, | [227] |
| William J. Wilson, | [230] |
| John Mercer Langston, | [235] |
| William C. Nell, | [238] |
| John Sella Martin, | [241] |
| Charles Lenox Remond, | [246] |
| George T. Downing, | [250] |
| Robert Purvis, | [253] |
| Joseph Jenkins, | [259] |
| John S. Rock, | [266] |
| William Douglass, | [271] |
| Elymas Payson Rogers, | [272] |
| J. Theodore Holly, | [274] |
| James W. C. Pennington, | [276] |
| A Man without a Name, | [278] |
| Samuel R. Ward, | [284] |
| Sir Edward Jordan, | [286] |
| Joseph Carter, | [288] |
| James Lawson, | [291] |
| Capt. Callioux, | [297] |
| Capt. Joseph Howard, | [308] |