Antoney and Isabell -- Piracy and European Wealth -- Servants or Slaves? -- From Servitude to Slavery -- Legislating Faith, Love, and Lust -- Runaways and Rebels -- A House Built on Smoke -- Founding Debtors, Founding Documents -- A Great White Hope -- I Can't Breathe -- Before the Mast -- Over...

Introduction: Painting the picture of black federal workers -- "Boy! Look at all these government girls!" : black opportunity in the nation's capital, 1941-1945 -- "Study long, study wrong" : achievements and limits of commissions studying discrimination in the federal workforce, 1945-1947 --...