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Part 1 Slavery and freedom, loss and gain: a collision of histories;Braudel's American mosaic; colonial revolts, American revolution; therevolution and the republic. Part 2 What, then, were these Americans?:mountains, valleys, and plains; capital cities; "with iron interlaced";citizens, subjects, and slaves - the republican mosaic. Part 3 A house burstasunder: the crisis of triumphant democracy; "engaged in a great civil war";in one, many. Coda: the vexed, unanswered question.