Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Representing Three-Fingered Jack 1
4. 1. Divide and Conquer: Three-Fingered Jack and the Maroons 22
5. 2. “Jack Is a MAN”: Prose Obis, 1800–1870 47
6. 3. Staging Obi: Three-Fingered Jack in London and New York 68
7. 4. Being Jack Mansong: Ira Aldridge and Three-Fingered Jack 89
8. 5. After Emancipation: Masquerade and Miscegenation 116
9. 6. Mansong : No Longer “Nearly Everybody Wite” 138
10. Epilogue: “The Baddest Man Around” 160
11. Acknowledgments 173
12. Notes 177
13. Works Cited 201
14. Index 217
15. About the Author 229