|aIntro; Half Title; Also by Tonya Bolden; Title Page; Contents; Brooding, Windswept Sky; Savannah River Too; Slipways to the Past; Uncle Percival, Uncle ...; Especially Uncle Fritz; Saltbox House on Minis Street; Far, Far Away from Forest City; First Rescue, First Refuge; Too Much Red; L-A-U-D-; Freewillum!; The Backhand Slap; Ashes to Ashes; My Bondage and My Freedom; Passing Strange; Findings; Eyes Afire; Windless, Firefly Night; Of Promise; Wanted; As Brave as Frederick Douglass?; Biscuits and Verbena Tea; Blessed, Truly Blessed; Tomorrow; Ma Somethin'; Gone; Three Coral Beads; A Wider World
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|aDone!Always You'll Be Here; Queen of Sea Routes; First-Floor Shutters Askew; Ballerina Legs; Gauche; Dorcas Vashon Is a Monster!; Nibbling; A Creature to Be Feared; E-ti-ket; Filling Up Too Fastly; PÄ-ˌTĀ-Də-ˌFWÄ-ˈGRÄ; A Peg-Legged Man, Drunks, and Dung; Phoenix Rising; I Am the Niece of ...; A Wider World Indeed!; Second Floor Front; Charmed!; Of Meeting Mollie Church; Then Stood There in a Daze; Inventing Victoria; Greater Expectations; Proctor's Resort; Purpose in His Eyes; And One Day a Kiss; All My Good Color?; The People Who Knew Me Best; Bay Rum; Beneath a Harvest Moon
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|aToo Good a Person to DeceiveLong Walk Home; Never Look Back!; Raised an Eyebrow; Like Lead into the Sea; Full of Christmas Cheer; Wishes Having Wings; Author's Note; Research and Sources; Acknowledgments; Copyright
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|aEssie, a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, is offered the opportunity to leave her shameful past and be transformed into an educated, high-society woman in Washington, D.C.