Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue: Trials -- PART I: LIBERTY AND SLAVERY -- Chapter One: ''Slavery may truly be said to be the peculiar curse of this land'' -- Chapter Two: ''Those natural and inherent rights that we all feel, and know, as men'' -- Chapter Three: ''God will deliver his own People from Slavery'' -- PART II: LIBERTY'S TRIALS -- Chapter Four: ''A plan, for instigating the slaves to insurrection'' -- Chapter Five: ''The Young King was about to alter the World, & set the Negroes Free'' -- Chapter Six: ''Dark, Hellish plots'' -- Chapter Seven: ''Justice is Satisfied!'' -- Epilogue -- Afterword: Thomas Jeremiah and the Historians -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Notes -- A Note on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.