American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia

Table of contents

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• American Slavery American Freedom *
• American Slavery American Freedom - The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia *
• Contents *
• Acknowledgments ix
• Book I - The Promised Land *
• 1 - Dreams of Liberation 3
• 2 - The Lost Colony 25
• 3 - Idle Indian and Lazy Englishman 44
• 4 - The Jamestown Fiasco 71
• 5 - The Persistent Vision 92
• 6 - Boom 108
• Book II - A New Deal *
• 7 - Settling Down 133
• 8 - Living with Death 158
• 9 - The Trouble with Tobacco 180
• 10 - A Golden Fleecing 196

• American Slavery American Freedom *
• American Slavery American Freedom - The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia *
• Contents *
• Acknowledgments ix
• Book I - The Promised Land *
• 1 - Dreams of Liberation 3
• 2 - The Lost Colony 25
• 3 - Idle Indian and Lazy Englishman 44
• 4 - The Jamestown Fiasco 71
• 5 - The Persistent Vision 92
• 6 - Boom 108
• Book II - A New Deal *
• 7 - Settling Down 133
• 8 - Living with Death 158
• 9 - The Trouble with Tobacco 180
• 10 - A Golden Fleecing 196
• Book III - The Volatile Society *
• 11 - The Losers 215
• 12 - Discontent 235
• 13 - Rebellion 250
• 14 - Status Quo 271
• Book IV - Slavery and Freedom *
• 15 - Toward Slavery 295
• 16 - Toward Racism 316
• 17 - Toward Populism 338
• 18 - Toward the Republic 363
• Footnote Abbreviations 389
• Appendix - Population Growth in Seventeenth-Century Virginia 395
• A Note on the Sources 433
• Index 443