Chapter one: Atlantic origins -- Atlantic Africa -- The Atlantic trade -- The slaving voyage -- Chapter two: development of slavery in mainland North America -- The Chesapeake -- The Low Country -- The lower Mississippi -- New England and the middle colonies -- Slavery and racial prejudice -- Chapter three: African-American culture -- Africans in America -- Demography, community, and culture -- The daily toil -- Family -- Religion -- Folk culture -- White and blacks, men and women, humanity and inhumanity -- Resistance, escape, rebellion, and suicide -- Chapter four: the revolutionary era -- Slavery and ideology -- Freedom for some -- Changing African-American society -- The foundations of caste -- Securing the blessings of liberty.
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