Analytical Table of Contents; 1. The Origins of North American Slavery; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Transitions to African Slavery in British America, 1630-1730: Barbados, Virginia and South Carolina; (Russell R. Menard, from Indian Historical Review); Document 1 The Arrival of the First Blacks in Virginia; (from Susan Myra Kingsbury (ed.), The Records of the Virginia Company of London); Document 2 Maryland establishes Slavery for life; (from William Hand Browne (ed.), Archives of Maryland: Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, January 1637/8-September 1664); Document 3 Management of Slaves, 1672; (from Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1900); 2. Slavery in Colonial North America; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Engendering Racial Difference, 1640-1670; (from Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia); Document 1 Anonymous testimony before Virginia magistrates about a sexual assault complaint made by a white woman against a mulatto man, 1681; (from Warren M. Billings (ed.), The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689); Document 2 Repeal of the Act excluding Slaves from Georgia, 1750; (from Elizabeth Donnan (ed.), Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America); Document 3 Johann Martin Bolzius answers a Questionnaire on Carolina and Georgia; (from Klaus G. Loewald, Beverly Starika and Paul S. Taylor, 'Johann Martin Bolzius answers a Questionnaire on Carolina and Georgia,' William and Mary Quarterly); 3. Slavery and the American Revolution; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Liberty, Equality, and Slavery: The Paradox of the American Revolution; (Sylvia R. Frey, from The American Revolution: 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; (from www.nationalcenter.org/HistoricalDocuments.html); Document 3 Petition from the 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; (Kenneth Morgan, from Journal of American Studies); Document 1 Extract from Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia; (from William Peden (ed.), Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia); Document 2 George Washington, Last Will and Testament, 9 July 1799; (from John P. Kaminski (ed.), A Necessary Evil? Slavery and the Debate over the Constitution); Document 3 DNA evidence on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings; (from Lander, Eric S. and Joseph 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; (from Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made); Document 1 Slave Work and Life in Georgia; (from Emily P. Burke, Reminiscences of Georgia); 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 on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union); 6. The Business of Slavery; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Turning People into Products; (from Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market); Document 1 The New Orleans Slave Market; (from Fredrika Bremer, The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America); Document 2 A slave coffle; (from George W. Featherstonhaugh, Excursion through the Slave States, from Washington on the Potomac to the Frontier of Mexico: with Sketches of Popular Manners and Geological Notices); Document 3 Inventory of slaves on a Louisiana sugar plantation; (from Willie Lee Rose (ed.), A Documentary History of Slavery in North America); 7. Slavery and the Law; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Slave Property Crimes and the Law in the South; (from Thomas D. Morris, Southern Slavery and the Law 1619-1860); Document 1 The Louisiana Slave Code, 1824; (from James O. Fuqua (ed.), Civil Code of the State of Louisiana: with the Statutory Amendments from 1825 to 1866 inclusive); Document 2 Assault and battery on a slave woman; (from Thomas P. Devereaux (ed.), Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina from December Term, 1828, to December Term, 1830); Document 3 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 and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation); Document 1 Runaway slave advertisements; (from Lathan A. Windley, Runaway Slave Advertisements: a Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790); Document 2 Petition about a slave runaway; (from John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantations); Document 3 Affidavit of a Tennessee Fugitive Slave; (from Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Thavolia Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland (eds), Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation 1861-1867, Series 1. Volume 1. The Destruction of Slavery); 9. Planters and Proslavery; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Proslavery Thought; (from Drew Gilpin Faust (ed.), The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South); Document 1 Letter to an English abolitionist; (from Drew Gilpin Faust (ed.), The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South); Document 2 George Fitzhugh and Proslavery Thought; (from Drew Gilpin Faust (ed.), The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South); Document 3 Justification for slavery; (from Drew Gilpin Faust (ed.), The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South); 10. The Antislavery Struggle; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Ordinary Women in the Antislavery movement; (from Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement); Document 1 The Germantown Protest, 1688; (from Henry S. Commager (ed.), Documents of American History); Document 2 A Slave petition for freedom during the Revolutionary era; (from Herbert Aptheker (ed.), 'Slaves Petition for Freedom during the Revolution, 1773-1779' in A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States); Document 3 Extract from 'The Liberator,' 1831; (from William Lloyd Garrison, 'The Liberator, 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 Civil War; (from Eric Foner, Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War); Document 1 The Fugitive Slave Act, 1850; (from www.Nationalcenter.org/HistoricalDocuments.html); Document 2 Appeal of the Independent Democrats, 1854; (from Henry S. Commager (ed.), Documents of American History); Document 3 Abraham Lincoln's 'House Divided' speech; (from www.nationalcenter.org/HistoricalDocuments.html); 12. Emancipation and the Civil War; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Lincoln and Slave Emancipation; (from Don E. Fehrenbacher, completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery); Document 1 The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863; (from Henry Steele 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: A Documentary History of Emancipation 1861-1867. Series 1. Volume 1: The Destruction of Slavery); Document 3 The Civil War Amendments to the United States Constitution; (from Henry Steele Commager (ed.), Documents of American History).