Free black business activity in Colonial America -- Business activities of African-American slaves, 1790-1865 -- Antebellum free black business activities -- Antebellum free black women enterprises -- Black business from 1865 to 1900 -- The golden age of black business, 1900-1930 -- From the Depression to Civil Rights in black business -- The Federal Government and black business: the 1960s to the 1990s -- The rise of black corporate America, 1945-1995 -- Blacks and white corporate America, 1965-1995.