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3. Introduction
4. Africans before Captivity
5. Medieval West Africa
6. West Africa, 1300 – 1800AD
7. West Central Africa, 14th – 18th Centuries
8. Introduction
9. The Transatlantic Slave Trade
10. Which Europeans Trafficked in Slaves?
11. Summary
12. Primary Sources
13. Introduction
14. The Settling of Virginia
15. Tightening the Bonds of Slavery
16. Africans in the Low Country
17. Introduction
18. African Americans and the Rhetoric of Revolution
19. Fighting Their Way to Freedom
20. The Impact of the Revolution on Slavery
21. Primary Sources
22. Introduction
23. Language
24. Spiritual Life: Public & Secret
25. Performing Culture in Music & Dance
26. Introduction
27. The Abolitionist Movement
28. Atlantic Origins of Reform
29. William Lloyd Garrison
30. Frederick Douglass
31. Primary Sources
32. Introduction
33. The Creation Of The Cotton Kingdom
34. The Domestic Slave Trade
35. Life as a Slave in the Cotton Kingdom
36. The Free Black Population
37. Introduction
38. The Sectional Crisis
39. The Crisis Joined
40. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
41. From Sectional Crisis to National Crisis
42. Introduction
43. The Election of 1860 and Secession
44. A War for Union? (1861—1862)
45. War for Freedom (1863—1865)
46. Black Soldiers and Union War Victories (1864—1865)
47. Primary Sources
48. Introduction
49. Politics of Reconstruction
50. Racial Violence in Reconstruction
51. The End of Reconstruction
52. Footnote Attribution List
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