Foreword, by Barbara McCaskill
The Saura of Stokes County, NC, by Artress Bethany White
1. Original Sin: Section I, by Artress Bethany White
A Family History, by Artress Bethany White
Oral Slave Narrative, by Artress Bethany White
An Extant Slave Receipt Signed Peter Hairston, by Artress Bethany White
Dear Ancestors On the Occasion of Visiting the Plantation Which Once Governed Your Lives, by Artress Bethany White
A Black Doe in the Anthropocene, by Artress Bethany White
Matrilineal, by Artress Bethany White
Racial Ambiguity, by Artress Bethany White
A Bondage Nocturne, by Artress Bethany White
Encroachment, by Artress Bethany White
Plantation Aubade: Freedom As Lover, by Artress Bethany White
Hemings Family Tour, by Artress Bethany White
When the Enslaved Dream, by Artress Bethany White
What I Will and Will Not Take From a Planter Ancestor, by Artress Bethany White
Crops: Tobacco, by Artress Bethany White
Bill of Sale 1832 December 21, by Artress Bethany White
On the Occasion of Enumeration, by Artress Bethany White
A Creased Page from a Hairston Plantation Ledger, by Artress Bethany White
Pancakes Keep Coming to Mind: A Sestina Commemorating the Demise of Aunt Jemima on the Pancake Box, by Artress Bethany White
Runners: A Ghazal for Our Times, by Artress Bethany White
Runaway Slave Affidavit, by Artress Bethany White
Paul, Where You Going To Run To?, by Artress Bethany White
Resurrection, by Artress Bethany White
George's Dilemma Anno Domini 1777, by Artress Bethany White
Of Bison and Bullets: A Preservation Project, by Artress Bethany White
My Father Singing "John Henry", by Artress Bethany White
The Negro Girl Letter, by Artress Bethany White
Dear [Negro] Body, by Artress Bethany White
Every Day Can Be Resistance, by Artress Bethany White
Esclave/Schiava/Escrava/Slave, by Artress Bethany White
2. Back to Africa: Section II, by Artress Bethany White
Severed: A Statement on the Ludicrous Nature of African Repatriation, by Artress Bethany White
Notebook of a Return to Africa: Accra, Ghana, by Artress Bethany White
Elmina [Slave] Castle, by Artress Bethany White
The Vanishing, by Artress Bethany White
Homegoing to Africa as Ars Poetica, by Artress Bethany White
The Origins of an "Americo" In Liberia, by Artress Bethany White
Vibrio Cholerae, by Artress Bethany White
The Good Ship Jupiter, by Artress Bethany White
Sherbro, West Africa, by Artress Bethany White
3. Home Again: Section III, by Artress Bethany White
Reconstruction, by Artress Bethany White
Just In Case They Change Their Mind, Let My Epitaph Read I'm Free, by Artress Bethany White
Up from Slavery, by Artress Bethany White
A Meditation on the Toppling of the Confederate Statue "Silent Sam", by Artress Bethany White
Slivers, by Artress Bethany White
My African American Sensibility Speaks To My Scottish Genes About the Miniseries Outlander, by Artress Bethany White
Notes, by Artress Bethany White
Acknowledgments, by Artress Bethany White
