Title -- Contents -- The Forethought -- I - Of Our Spiritual Strivings -- II - Of the Dawn of Freedom -- III - Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others -- IV - Of the Meaning of Progress -- V - Of the Wings of Atalanta -- VI - Of the Training of Black Men -- VII - Of the Black Belt -- VIII - Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece -- IX - Of the Sons of Master and Man -- X - Of the Faith of the Fathers -- XI - Of the Passing of the First- Born -- XII - Of Alexander Crummell -- XIII - Of the Coming of John -- XIV - Of the Sorrow Songs -- The Afterthought.