1. What to the American Indian Is the Fourth of July? Moving beyond Abolitionist Rhetoric in William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip–Drew Lopenzina
2. Revising "Harriet Jacobs" for 1865–Anna Stewart
3. O Cant: Singing the Race Music of Jean Toomer's Cane–T. Austin Graham
4. "Poets of the First Book, Writers of Promise": Beginning in the Era of the First Book Prize–Jesse Zuba
5. Speculative Fictions of Slavery–Madhu Dubey
6. Serpentine Figures, Sinuous Relations: Thematic Geometry in Allison Hedge Coke's Blood Run–Chadwick Allen