Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Slavery Historiography: Overview of Contemporaries and Historians -- Chapter Two: American Slavery and the Economy -- Chapter Three: American Slavery and Politics -- Chapter Four: American Slavery and Gender -- Chapter Five: American Slavery and Families -- Chapter Six: American Slavery and Resistance -- Chapter Seven: American Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade -- Chapter Eight: American Slavery and Free African Americans -- Chapter Nine: American Slavery and Emancipation -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.