Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Prologue: Making Slavery, Making Race
  • I. SOCIETIES WITH SLAVES: The Charter Generations
  • 1. Emergence of Atlantic Creoles in the Chesapeake
  • 2. Expansion of Creole Society in the North
  • 3. Divergent Paths in the Lowcountry
  • 4. Devolution in the Lower Mississippi Valley
  • II. SLAVE SOCIETIES: The Plantation Generations
  • 5. The Tobacco Revolution in the Chesapeake
  • 6. The Rice Revolution in the Lowcountry
  • 7. Growth and the Transformation of Black Life in the North
  • 8. Stagnation and Transformation in the Lower Mississippi Valley
  • III. SLAVE AND FREE: The Revolutionary Generations9. The Slow Death of Slavery in the North
  • 10. The Union of African-American Society in the Upper South
  • 11. Fragmentation in the Lower South
  • 12. Slavery and Freedom in the Lower Mississippi Valley
  • Epilogue: Making Race, Making Slavery