Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-398) and index.
Contents
Free people and slaves, 1613-1664 -- The closing vise of slavery, 1664-1714 -- The thirty-year rebellion, 1714-1741 -- From conspiracy to revolution, 1741-1776 -- The Black American revolution, 1776-1783 -- Gradually free, 1783-1804 -- Making a free people, 1804-1827 -- The Black renaissance amidst white racism, 1827-1860.