pt. I. World of bondage : Many golden dreams ; Atlantic wanderer ; Intoxicated with liberty ; King sugar ; A tale of two ships

pt. II. From tinder to flame : A moral steam engine ; The first emancipation ; "I questioned whether I should even get out of it alive: ; Am I not a man and a brother? ; A place beyond the seas ; "Ramsay is dead, I have killed him"

pt. III. "A whole nation crying with one voice" : An eighteenth-century book tour ; The blood-sweetened beverage ; Promised land ; The sweets of liberty ; High noon in Parliament

pt. IV. War and revolution : Bleak decade ; At the foot of Vesuvius ; Redcoats' graveyard ; "These gilded Africans"

pt. V. Bury the chains : A side wind ; Am I not a woman and a sister? ; "Come, shout o'er the grave

Epilogue: "To feel a just indignation"

Appendix : Where was Equiano born?

World of bondage

From tinder to flame

A whole nation crying with one voice

War and revolution

Bury the chains.