Absalom Boston and the development of Nantucket's African-American community / Isabel Kaldenback-Montemayor -- Before Douglass : racism & nationalism in Nantucket's newspapers in the early republic / John Saillant -- Anna Gardner : teacher of freedmen, "a disturber of tradition" / Barbara White -- Frederick Douglas[s] : the Nantucket connection / Pearlie Peters -- African American women in the 19th century Nantucket / Gloria Davis Goode -- Mary Ellen Pleasant's Nantucket / Lynn M. Hudson -- Making their mark : African Nantucketers and literacy / Frances Karttunen -- The Cape Verdean legacy of Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and environs / Aminah Fernandes Pilgrim -- Patience A. Cooper : a re-evaluation of her arrest and trial in nineteenth century Nantucket / Robert Johnson, Jr. -- Non-maritime occupational and business history of African-Americans and Cape Verdeans / Robert C. Hayden.