As the day of final adjustment is inevitable, it is wise for all of us who love our country to make a study of the internal workings of a race now shaking itself loose from the death sleep of the ages.
It is the aim of "Unfettered" to lead the reader into the inner life of the Negro race and lay bare the aspirations that are fructifying there.
Those who come to these pages in quest of pen pictures of either angels or demons, are not likely to find what they seek, for our story has to do with human beings, simply. That is, we should say, with the exception of—but you will make your own exceptions when the tale is fully told.
The Author.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER. PAGE.
I. AN ANGLO-SAXON'S DEATH [9]
II. "A NEW KING ... WHICH KNEW NOT JOSEPH" [15]
III. A FALLEN MAN SHOOTS [22]
IV. THE CLANS GATHER [29]
V. BREEDS TROUBLE FOR AFTER YEARS [37]
VI. AN ACT OF WHICH NOBODY IS PROUD [46]
VII. A MAN AGAINST A REGIMENT [54]
VIII. THE HINT NOT TAKEN [62]
IX. DORLAN WARTHELL [70]
X. CUPID SHOULD BE MORE CAREFUL [73]
XI. A STORMY INTERVIEW [78]
XII. MORLENE AND DORLAN [83]
XIII. A WHOLE CITY STIRRED [92]
XIV. BLOODWORTH AT WORK [101]
XV. HARRY BECOMES A TOOL [106]
XVI. A WOMAN AROUSED [111]
XVII. CLANDESTINELY, YET IN HONOR [121]
XVIII. WHO WINS? [126]
XIX. THE SCENE SHIFTS [134]
XX. THE BYSTANDERS CHEER [142]
XXI. TO BEGIN LIFE ANEW, AS IT WERE [149]
XXII. EXCUSABLE RUDENESS [153]
XXIII. A STREET PARADE [160]
XXIV. GOING FORTH TO UNFETTER [169]
XXV. TONY MARSHALL [179]
XXVI. A MORNING RIDE [185]
XXVII. THEY FEAR EACH OTHER [189]
XXVIII. "O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING?" [194]
XXIX. IN THE BALANCES [201]
XXX. THE TELEGRAM [207]
DORLAN'S PLAN.
PAGE.
FOREWORD [219]
WHERE THE TROUBLE ARISES [223]
OUR PROBLEM [225]
THE INSPIRATION OF THE OPPOSITION [226]
STILL IN THE BALANCES [228]
HE WHO HAS HITHERTO FOLLOWED CALLED UPON TO LEAD [231]
REVISITING THE ORIENT [233]
CLASPING HANDS [234]
RENOVATION [237]
WHERE TO BEGIN [239]
"THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME" [240]
RELIGION A FACTOR [244]
TO WEAR WELL OUR CROWN [245]
IN THE UPPER REALMS [247]
"OF MAKING MANY BOOKS THERE IS NO END" [249]
WE EAT TO LIVE [251]
LITTLE AFRICAS [253]
"YE HAVE THE POOR WITH YOU ALWAYS" [254]
THE WINDS HAVE VEERED [255]
"THE FIELD IS THE WORLD" [256]
WHERE THE GALE BLOWS FIERCEST [257]
WITH THE HEN GOES HER BROOD [265]
THE PROBLEM OF THE OTHER MAN [266]
OUR LAST FOE [269]
MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD [271]
THE END DRAWETH NIGH [274]