To tell a free story: the first century of Afro-American autobiography, 1760-1865

Ch. 1. The first century of Afro-American autobiography : notes toward a definition of a genre

ch. 2. Voices of the first fifty years, 1760-1810

ch. 3. Experiments in two modes, 1810-40

ch. 4. The performance of slave narrative in the 1840s

ch. 5. The uses of marginality, 1850-65

ch. 6. Culmination of a century : the autobiographies of J.D. Green, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs

Conclusion. "Free at last" : from discourse to dialogue in the novelized autobiography.