Foreword
Preface
A Note for Students
PART I. INTRODUCTION
The Beginnings of American Slavery
Africans and Slavery in Colonial America
Historians and the Beginnings of Slavery
PART II. SOME CURRENT QUESTIONS
1. Was the early "European Atlantic" also an African Atlantic?
Ira Berlin, From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America
2. Who enslaved whom?
Margaret Washington, Gullah Roots, From "A Peculiar People": Slave Religion and Community-Culture among the Gullahs
3. How did the subject of slavery enter American law?
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., The Ancestry of Inferiority (1619–1662), From Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process
4. How did North America's absolute racial division begin?
Winthrop D. Jordan, American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies
5. Did American freedom rest upon American slavery?
Edmund S. Morgan, Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox
Making Connections
Suggestions for Further Reading