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Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapters Intro-23 -- Introduction -- I The Tales -- Chapter One Victor Séjour, "The Mulatto" (1837, new English translation by Susan Castillo Street) -- The Mulatto -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Chapter Two Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) -- The Fall of the House of Usher -- Chapter Three Edgar Allan Poe, "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1844) -- The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether Chapter Eleven Kate Chopin, "Désirée's Baby'' (1893) -- Désirée's Baby -- Chapter Twelve M. E. M. Davis, "At La Glorieuse" (1897) -- At La Glorieuse -- II Background -- Chapter Thirteen J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer: Letter IX (1782) -- Letter IX -- Description of Charles-Town -- Thoughts on Slavery -- on Physical Evil -- a Melancholy Scene -- Chapter Fourteen Thomas Jefferson, from Notes on the State of Virginia: Query XVIII (1785) -- Query XVIII -- Chapter Fifteen Jean- Jacques Dessalines, "Liberty or Death: Proclamation, 28 April 1804" Chapter Four Henry Clay Lewis, "A Struggle for Life" (1850) -- A Struggle for Life -- Chapter Five George Washington Cable, "Belles Demoiselles Plantation" (1879) -- Belles Demoiselles Plantation -- Chapter Six Lafcadio Hearn, "The Ghostly Kiss" (1880) -- The Ghostly Kiss -- Chapter Seven Thomas Nelson Page, "No Haid Pawn" (1887) -- No Haid Pawn -- Chapter Eight Charles Chesnutt, "Po' Sandy" (1888) -- Po' Sandy -- Chapter Nine Grace King, "The Little Convent Girl" (1893) -- The Little Convent Girl -- Chapter Ten E. Levi Brown, "At the Hermitage" (1893) -- At the Hermitage Liberty or Death Proclamation -- Chapter Sixteen Charles Brockden Brown, "On the Consequences of Abolishing the Slave Trade to the West Indian Colonies" (1805) -- On the Consequences of Abolishing the Slave Trade to the West Indian Colonies -- Chapter Seventeen Leonora Sansay, from Secret History -- or, The Horrors of St. Domingo: Letter II, Letter XXI (1808) -- Letter II -- Letter XXI -- Chapter Eighteen Thomas Ruffin Gray, from "The Confessions of Nat Turner" (1831) -- "The Confessions of Nat Turner" -- Chapter Nineteen Lafcadio Hearn, "St. Johns Eve- Voudouism" (1875) St. John's Eve-Voudouism (1875) -- Chapter Twenty George Washington Cable, from "Salome Müller: The White Slave" (from Strange True Stories of Louisiana, 1890) -- Salome Müller, the White Slave (1818-45) -- I. Salome and Her Kindred -- IV. Sold into Bondage -- V. The Lost Orphans -- VI. Christian Roselius -- VII. Miller versus Belmonte -- VIII. The Trial -- IX. The Evidence -- X. The Crowning Proof -- XI. Judgment -- XII. Before the Supreme Court -- Chapter Twenty-One George Washington Cable, from "The Haunted House in Royal Street" (from Strange True Stories of Louisiana, 1890) The "Haunted House" in Royal Street Twelve uncanny tales of the race-haunted nineteenth-century South, by authors both celebrated and obscure, are presented along with background readings, themselves often chilling, placing the tales in a historical context
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