Contents

pp v-vi

Dedication

pp vii-vii

List of Figures and Maps

pp viii-xi

Acknowledgements

pp xii-xiv

Abbreviations

pp xv-xv

Dramatis Personae

pp xvi-xviii

Part I - The Voyage

pp 1-2

1 - ‘Throw Him Overboard’

pp 3-6

2 - The Making of a Fugitive

pp 7-16

3 - ‘Put Them in Irons’

pp 17-30

Part II - Dark, Polluted Gold

pp 31-32

4 - Electric Speed

pp 33-45

5 - That Ticklish Possession

pp 46-64

6 - The Free Church Responds

pp 65-75

7 - The Price of Freedom

pp 76-86

8 - The Genealogy of Money

pp 87-98

9 - Gilded Cages

pp 99-104

Part III - Douglass, Scott and Burns

pp 105-106

10 - ‘One of Scotland’s Many Famous Names’

pp 107-116

11 - A Wild Proposition

pp 117-123

12 - New Relations and Duties

pp 124-134

13 - A Visit to Ayr

pp 135-145

14 - The Coward Slave and the Poor Negro Driver

pp 146-150

15 - Crooked Paths

pp 151-156

16 - The Sons and Daughters of Old Scotia

pp 157-168

Part IV - Measuring Heads, Reading Faces

pp 169-170

17 - Breakfast with Combe

pp 171-180

18 - The Physiological Century

pp 181-187

19 - Travelling Phrenologically

pp 188-196