Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1. Collective Memory 32
7. Chapter 2. Surveying Enslavement in the North 50
8. Chapter 3. Slavery and Collective Forgetting 89
9. Chapter 4. Enslaved Africans in the President’s House 121
10. Chapter 5. Memorializing the Enslaved on Independence Mall 153
11. Chapter 6. The Bench by the Side of the Road 179
12. Chapter 7. Burial Grounds as Sites of Memory Recovery 209
13. Chapter 8. Overcoming Collective Forgetting 236
14. Epilogue 256
15. Notes 259
16. Works Cited 275
17. Index 289
18. Acknowledgments 303