Foreword by Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1.   The Moral Setting

Morality Tests

Evolution of Slavery

Cause and Effect

Chapter 2.   The Economic Class System

Four Tiered Society

Alternative Slave Systems

Colonial Period

Southern Class System

Northern Class System

Chapter 3.   Law and Order

Southern Legal Framework

Louisiana’s Legal Framework

Free Black’s Legal Framework

Religion as a Control Weapon

The Black Man Revolts

Chapter 4.   Family Values

Evolution of Family Codes

Destroying Black Families

Discarding of Family Values

No Immunity for White Families

Chapter 5.   Human Rights

Blacks’ Humanity Denied

Blacks as Animals and Things

Blacks’ Psychological Syndromes

Slaveholders’ Rationalizations

Chapter 6.   Civil Rights

Blacks’ Role in The Revolution

Slaveholders’ Constitution

Blacks’ Federal Status

Code Noir Civil Rights

Southern Civil Rights

Northern Civil Rights

Chapter 7.   Educational Opportunity

In the South

In the North

Knowledge Base—The North’s Advantage

Chapter 8.   The Reckoning

Competing Theories

Southern Dilemmas

Slaveholders’ Survival Plan,

Northern Dilemmas

Republican’s Action Plan

Chapter 9.   Lincoln’s Solution

America’s Bloodiest War

The Scorecard

Chapter 10. Lessons of The Civil War

Segregated Blacks as “Separate but Equal,”

The Constitutional Class System

Myth, and Reality

Epilogue: Obama Trumps the Constitution

Racial Bridge

Constitutional Electoral System

Internet Money, Race, and Votes

Black Swan 2008

Notes

Bibliography

Author Biography