Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Carved in Flesh" -- ONE. Capturing Identity in Ink: Tattooing and the White Captive -- TWO. "Burning into the Bone": Romantic Love and the Marked Woman -- THREE. "Tattooed Still": The Inscription of Female Agency -- FOUR. "The Skin of an American Slave": The Mark of African American Manhood in Abolitionist Literature -- FIVE. "Raising the Stigma": African American Women and the Corporeal Legacy of Slavery -- Epilogue: Tattooed Ladies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.