First impressions: initial English confrontation with Africans
Unthinking decision: enslavement of Africans in America
Provincial decades, 1700-1755.
Anxious oppressors: freedom and control in a slave society
Fruits of passion: the dynamics of interracial sex
The souls of men: the negro's spiritual nature
The bodies of men: the negro's physical nature
The Revolutionary era, 1755-1783.
Self-scrutiny in the Revolutionary era
Society and thought, 1783-1812.
The imperatives of economic interest and national identity
The limitations of antislavery
The resulting pattern of separation
Thought and society, 1783-1812.
