Cover Page -- Slavery Remembered -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: The Narratives as a Source -- 1. Two Peoples and Two Worlds -- 2. Conditions of Life: The Slaves' Experiences on the Plantation -- 3. Improving the Conditions of Life: Forms of Slave Resistance -- 4. Bases of a Black Culture -- 5. "Seeing How the Land Lay" in Freedom -- 6. "Starting Uphill, den Going Back" -- 7. Life Patterns of the Freedom Generation -- Afterword -- Appendix A Methods of Recording and Coding Information -- Appendix B Race of Interviewers -- Appendix C Additional Tables -- Appendix D New Narratives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.