Black hands, White House : slave labor and the making of America

Part I. Captured and caged : and still they built new worlds -- 1. Black bodies : white minds, and the irony of liberty -- 2. Black hands : native lands, and the making of Mount Vernon -- 3. Black minds : blueprints, and the enslaved and free Black artisans of Federal City -- 4. Black builders : slave pens, and the construction of the national seat of government -- 5. Black laborers : prophetic abolitionists, and iconic institutions in the nation's capital -- Part II. Blessing the wings : a call for a national memorial -- 6. Black lives : co-opted memorials, and the paradox of not mattering -- 7. Black memory : Black market, and the transatlantic slave trade.