1. The land and its people -- 2. The struggle for conquest: the first two hundred years -- 3. From chaos to colony: the establishment of government in the Chocó -- 4. From mine to smeltery: the problems and methods of gold production in the Chocó -- 5. The Chocó and the cycle of contraband -- 6. Citizen or slave: the Indian in the Chocó -- 7. The black: his presence -- 8. Slavery in the Chocó: law and reality -- 9. Libres, cimarrones, and black resistance -- 10. Mining economics and the profitability of slavery in the Chocó.