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Analytical Table of Contents; 1. The Origins of North American Slavery;Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Transitions to African Slavery in BritishAmerica, 1630-1730: Barbados, Virginia and South Carolina; (Russell R.Menard, from Indian Historical Review); Document 1 The Arrival of the FirstBlacks in Virginia; (from Susan Myra Kingsbury (ed.), The Records of theVirginia Company of London); Document 2 Maryland establishes Slavery forlife; (from William Hand Browne (ed.), Archives of Maryland: Proceedings andActs of the General Assembly of Maryland, January 1637/8-September 1664);Document 3 Management of Slaves, 1672; (from Virginia Magazine of History andBiography, 1900); 2. Slavery in Colonial North America; Introduction;Bibliography; Essay Engendering Racial Difference, 1640-1670; (from KathleenM. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race,and Power in Colonial Virginia); Document 1 Anonymous testimony beforeVirginia magistrates about a sexual assault complaint made by a white womanagainst a mulatto man, 1681; (from Warren M. Billings (ed.), The Old Dominionin the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689);Document 2 Repeal of the Act excluding Slaves from Georgia, 1750; (fromElizabeth Donnan (ed.), Documents Illustrative of the History of the SlaveTrade to America); Document 3 Johann Martin Bolzius answers a Questionnaireon Carolina and Georgia; (from Klaus G. Loewald, Beverly Starika and Paul S.Taylor, 'Johann Martin Bolzius answers a Questionnaire on Carolina andGeorgia,' William and Mary Quarterly); 3. Slavery and the AmericanRevolution; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Liberty, Equality, and Slavery:The Paradox of the American Revolution; (Sylvia R. Frey, from The AmericanRevolution: Its Character and Limits); Document 1 The Northwest Ordinance,1787; (from Henry S. Commager (eds.), Documents of American History);Document 2 Slavery and the United States Constitution; (fromwww.nationalcenter.org/HistoricalDocuments.html); Document 3 Petition fromthe Pennsylvania Abolition Society to Congress, 1790; (from Gary B. Nash,Race and Revolution); 4. Slavery and the Founding Fathers; Introduction;Bibliography; Essay George Washington and the Problem of Slavery; (KennethMorgan, from Journal of American Studies); Document 1 Extract from ThomasJefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia; (from William Peden (ed.), ThomasJefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia); Document 2 George Washington,Last Will and Testament, 9 July 1799; (from John P. Kaminski (ed.), ANecessary Evil? Slavery and the Debate over the Constitution); Document 3 DNAevidence on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings; (from Lander, Eric S. andJoseph J. Ellis, 'DNA Analysis: Founding Father' and Eugene A. Foster et al.,'Jefferson fathered slave's last child,' Nature); 5. Slave Life and Work;Introduction; Bibliography; Essay The Gospel in the Slave Quarters; (fromEugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made); Document1 Slave Work and Life in Georgia; (from Emily P. Burke, Reminiscences ofGeorgia); Document 2 Cruel treatment of a slave girl; (from Jean F. Yellin(ed.), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl); Document 3 Slave testimonies;(from Robert Edgar Conrad (ed.), In the Hands of Strangers: Readings onForeign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union); 6. TheBusiness of Slavery; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Turning People intoProducts; (from Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life inside the AntebellumSlave Market); Document 1 The New Orleans Slave Market; (from FredrikaBremer, The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America); Document 2 Aslave coffle; (from George W. Featherstonhaugh, Excursion through the SlaveStates, from Washington on the Potomac to the Frontier of Mexico: withSketches of Popular Manners and Geological Notices); Document 3 Inventory ofslaves on a Louisiana sugar plantation; (from Willie Lee Rose (ed.), ADocumentary History of Slavery in North America); 7. Slavery and the Law;Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Slave Property Crimes and the Law in theSouth; (from Thomas D. Morris, Southern Slavery and the Law 1619-1860);Document 1 The Louisiana Slave Code, 1824; (from James O. Fuqua (ed.), CivilCode of the State of Louisiana: with the Statutory Amendments from 1825 to1866 inclusive); Document 2 Assault and battery on a slave woman; (fromThomas P. Devereaux (ed.), Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Courtof North Carolina from December Term, 1828, to December Term, 1830); Document3 Extract from the Dred Scott decision, 1857; (from Henry S. Commager (ed.),Documents of American History); 8. Slave Resistance; Introduction;Bibliography; Essay Profile of a Runaway Slave; (from John Hope Franklin andLoren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation); Document 1Runaway slave advertisements; (from Lathan A. Windley, Runaway SlaveAdvertisements: a Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790); Document 2Petition about a slave runaway; (from John Hope Franklin and LorenSchweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantations); Document 3 Affidavitof a Tennessee Fugitive Slave; (from Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, ThavoliaGlymph, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland (eds), Freedom: A DocumentaryHistory of Emancipation 1861-1867, Series 1. Volume 1. The Destruction ofSlavery); 9. Planters and Proslavery; Introduction; Bibliography; EssayProslavery Thought; (from Drew Gilpin Faust (ed.), The Ideology of Slavery:Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South); Document 1 Letter to an Englishabolitionist; (from Drew Gilpin Faust (ed.), The Ideology of Slavery:Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South); Document 2 George Fitzhugh andProslavery Thought; (from Drew Gilpin Faust (ed.), The Ideology of Slavery:Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South); Document 3 Justification forslavery; (from Drew Gilpin Faust (ed.), The Ideology of Slavery: ProslaveryThought in the Antebellum South); 10. The Antislavery Struggle; Introduction;Bibliography; Essay Ordinary Women in the Antislavery movement; (from JulieRoy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in theAntislavery Movement); Document 1 The Germantown Protest, 1688; (from HenryS. Commager (ed.), Documents of American History); Document 2 A Slavepetition for freedom during the Revolutionary era; (from Herbert Aptheker(ed.), 'Slaves Petition for Freedom during the Revolution, 1773-1779' in ADocumentary History of the Negro People in the United States); Document 3Extract from 'The Liberator,' 1831; (from William Lloyd Garrison, 'TheLiberator, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1, 1831' in Henry S. Commager (ed.),Documents of American History); 11. Slavery and Politics; Introduction;Bibliography; Essay Politics, Ideology, and the Origins of the American CivilWar; (from Eric Foner, Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War);Document 1 The Fugitive Slave Act, 1850; (fromwww.Nationalcenter.org/HistoricalDocuments.html); Document 2 Appeal of theIndependent Democrats, 1854; (from Henry S. Commager (ed.), Documents ofAmerican History); Document 3 Abraham Lincoln's 'House Divided' speech; (fromwww.nationalcenter.org/HistoricalDocuments.html); 12. Emancipation and theCivil War; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Lincoln and Slave Emancipation;(from Don E. Fehrenbacher, completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee, TheSlaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relationsto Slavery); Document 1 The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863; (from HenrySteele Commager (ed.), Documents of American History); Document 2 Kentucky,Unionism and Slavery; (from Extract from Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields,Thavolia Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland (eds), Freedom: ADocumentary History of Emancipation 1861-1867. Series 1. Volume 1: TheDestruction of Slavery); Document 3 The Civil War Amendments to the UnitedStates Constitution; (from Henry Steele Commager (ed.), Documents of AmericanHistory).