I. HOW TO READ THIS WORK: A Guide to the Reader
II. A NOTE TO THE READER: Why This Work Is Offered Now
III. The Confiscation Acts — 1861–1862
IV. The Emancipation Proclamation — 1862–1863
V. Abraham Lincoln’s Constitutional Charge — The Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural Address, 1863–1865
VI. The Freedmen’s Bureau — 1865–1866
VII. The Civil Rights Act of 1866
VIII. President Andrew Johnson: Three Vetoes, One Identification — 1866
IX. The Mysterious, “All Persons Born…” of the 14th Amendment – Revealed
X. The Reconstruction Triad Amendments — 1865–1870
XI. The Enforcement Acts — 1870–1871
XII. The Department of Justice — Established in 1870
XIII. The Slaughter-House Cases — 1873
IXV. The Compromise of 1877
XV. The Civil Rights Cases — 1883
XVI. Plessy v. Ferguson — 1896
XVII. The Promissory Note and Promised-Land Vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — 1963–1968
XVIII. The Presidency and the Constitutional Duty of Faithful Execution
XIX. A Closing Note to Posterity
XX. EPILOGUE: MR. PATRIOT: The Citizen Who Walks Before the Republic