Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Settlement and Subjugation, 1600-1840 -- Two Frontiers -- The Image of the Savage -- Rehearsals: Ireland and Indonesia -- The Dispossession of the Coastal Indians and the Cape Khoikhoi -- The Trans-Appalachian and Eastern Cape Frontiers -- II. The Rise of Racial Slavery in the South and the Cape -- The Emergence of a Labor System -- The Ideological Origins of Slavery -- From Religious to Racial Slavery in Virginia and South Africa -- Slavery and Society in the South and the Cape -- III. Race Mixture and the Color Line -- Race Mixture in Comparative Perspective -- Early Race Mixture: The Restrictive American Pattern -- Early Race Mixture: The Permissive South African Pattern -- The Origins of Difference, -- The Legacy of the Early Patterns -- IV. Liberty, Union, and White Supremacy, 1776-1910 -- White Politics and the Emergence of New Nations -- Revolution, Rebellion, and the Limits of Equality, 1776-1820 -- White Supremacy and the American Sectional Conflict -- White Supremacy and the Anglo-Africaner Conflict, 1820-77 -- Emancipations, Reconstructions, and Political Consolidation -- V. Industrialism, White Labor, and Racial Discrimination -- Industrialization and Ethnic Pluralism -- The Industrial Legacy of Slavery and the Rise of the Machine -- The Segmentation of Labor, 1870-1910 -- The Emergence of Class and Race Conflict -- Why No Industrial Color Bar in the United States? -- VI. Two Strange Careers: Segregation in South Africa and the South -- Jim Crow and "Native Segregation": A Contrast -- A Closer Parallel: Southern Blacks and Cape Coloreas -- The Era of Laissez-Faire Segregation -- The Emergence of Legalized Segregation and Disfranchisement -- Chronology of Major Events -- Notes -- Index -- Footnotes.