Invocation: To Bust Your Shell -- Introduction: Reborn Again : Orphan Initiations, Motherless Lands -- Part One. The Ancestral House -- Down to the Mire : Travels, Shouts & Saraka in Atlantic Praise- housings -- Lift Every Voice and Swing : James Weldon Johnson's God-met Places and Native Lands -- Part Two. Les Invisibles -- Fe Chauffe, Balanse, Swing : Saint Domingue Refugees in the Govi of New Orleans -- Making Faces at the Sublime : Momentum from within Creole City -- Part Three. Sangre y Monte -- "Come and Gaze on a Mystery" : Zora Neale Hurston's Rain-Bringing Authority -- Vamanos pa'l Monte : Into Florida's Repeating Bush -- Envoi: White [Wo]men Have Never Known What to Do with Their Blood : Gulf Carriers & Sanguine Knowledge.