Contents -- Prologue: Making Slavery, Making Race -- I. SOCIETIES WITH SLAVES: The Charter Generations -- 1. Emergence of Atlantic Creoles in the Chesapeake -- 2. Expansion of Creole Society in the North -- 3. Divergent Paths in the Lowcountry -- 4. Devolution in the Lower Mississippi Valley -- II. SLAVE SOCIETIES: The Plantation Generations -- 5. The Tobacco Revolution in the Chesapeake -- 6. The Rice Revolution in the Lowcountry -- 7. Growth and the Transformation of Black Life in the North -- 8. Stagnation and Transformation in the Lower Mississippi Valley -- III. SLAVE AND FREE: The Revolutionary Generations -- 9. The Slow Death of Slavery in the North -- 10. The Union of African-American Society in the Upper South -- 11. Fragmentation in the Lower South -- 12. Slavery and Freedom in the Lower Mississippi Valley -- Epilogue: Making Race, Making Slavery.