Colored amazons: crime, violence, and Black women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910

Notes from the author : crime and Black women's history

Of law and virtue : Black women in slavery, freedom, and early criminal justice

Service savors of slavery : labor, autonomy, and turn-of-the-century urban crime

Tricking the tricks : violence and vice among Black female criminals

Roughneck women, pale representations, and dark crimes : Black female criminals and popular culture

Deviant by design : race, degeneracy, and the science of penology

Conclusion: "She was born in this prison" : Black female crime, past and present.