Preface 1. American Historians and Antebellum Slavery 2. Rise of the Cotton Kingdom 3. Urban and Industrial Slavery 4. Plantation Slavery 5. The Techniques of Control 6. The Slave Community 7. Slave Resistance in the Antebellum South 8. Free Blacks in the Antebellum South 9. Free Blacks in the Antebellum North I 10. Free Blacks in the Antebellum North II 11. The Free Black Community in the Antebellum North 12. The Free Black Elite 13. The Colonization Controversy 14. The Convention Movement 15. The Battle for Equality 16. "A Firebell in the Night" 17. The Proslavery Argument 18. American Historians and the Abolitionists 19. The Liberator and the American Anti-Slavery Society 20. Civil Rights and Antislavery 21. The Split in the Antislavery Movement 22. Black Abolitionists 23. Black Abolitionists and the Underground Railroad 24. Black-White Relations in the Antislavery Movement 25. Blacks and Antislavery Political Parties, 1840–1848 Bibliography and Sources Index