Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: uncovering the life of a blues woman
  • Beyond the contraband camps: Black Chattanooga from the Civil War to 1880
  • The freest town on the map: Black migration to new south Chattanooga
  • The empress's playground: Bessie Smith and Black childhood in the urban South
  • Life on Big Ninth Street: the emerging blues culture in Chattanooga
  • An empress in vaudeville: Bessie Smith on the theater circuit.