Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction (page ix)
- 1. Slavery and Slave Trading in the Colonial North (page 3)
- 2. Culture, Race, and Class in the Colonial North (page 30)
- 3. Revolution and the Abolition of Northern Slavery (page 55)
- 4. A Life in Freedom: The Evolution of Family and Household (page 77)
- 5. Coping with Urban Life: Poverty, Work, and Regional Differences (page 101)
- 6. Sustaining and Serving the Community: Building Institutions for Social and Spiritual Welfare (page 125)
- 7. Culture, Politics, and the Issue of African-American Identity (page 155)
- 8. Ambivalent Identity: Colonization and the Question of Emigration (page 177)
- 9. The Growth of the Antebellum Antislavery Movement (page 203)
- 10. The Widening Struggle, Growing Militancy, and the Hope of Liberty for All (page 237)
- Epilogue (page 269)
- Notes (page 271)
- Index (page 325)