Table of Contents

Chapter 1-Old Worlds Collide through the Atlantic Slave Trade
Chapter 2-Putting Slavery Into Place in the American Colonies
Chapter 3-Early Challenges to Slavery in America
Chapter 4-America Built on Slavery
Chapter 5-Making Life Bearable
Chapter 6--Domination and Resistance
Chapter 7--Taking Slavery Apart
Epilogue

About the Author

Heather Andrea Williams is Presidential Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery, and Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom.

Reviews

William's study provides a concise overview of many of the key issues and topics surrounding the nature of American slavery
*Review in History*