Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Around the Nation
1. Expectations
2. Participation and Protest
3. Race, Class, Gender
Part Two: In Host City Chicago
4. The Domain of Work
5. The Social Order
Part Three: At the Fair
6. "They Met at the Fair": Linkages
7. The Scope of Involvement
Part Four: "All the World is Here!"
8. Continental Africa at the Fair: Dahomey Village
9. On the Fairgrounds: The Haytian Pavilion
10. Diasporan and Continental Africa Meet: The Congress on Africa
Appendix I: Frederick Douglass's Speech at Colored American Day
Appendix II: Colored People's Blue Book
Appendix III: Commentaries from Midway Types
Appendix IV: "Judge," a poem by A. T. Worden
Notes
Index

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A look at African and African American participation in the 1893 Columbian Exposition.

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"This entrancing book looks at [the clash of class and caste within the black community] ... An important reexamination of African American history." - Choice