4. Building a “white” pro-slavery wall: the construction of Georgia

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Rebellious Africans: how Caribbean slavery came to the mainland 23
6. 2. Free trade in Africans?: did the glorious revolution unleash the slave trade? 43
7. 3. Revolt!: Africans conspire with the french and spanish 63
8. 4. Building a “white” pro-slavery wall: the construction of Georgia 88
9. 5. The stono uprising: will the africans become masters and the europeans slaves? 110
10. 6. Arson, murders, poisonings, shipboard insurrections: the fruits of the accelerating slave trade 136
11. 7. The biggest losers: Africans and the seven years’ war 161
12. 8. From Havana to Newport, slavery transformed: settlers rebel against London 184
13. 9. Abolition in London: somerset’s case and the north american aftermath 209
14. 10. The counter-revolution of 1776 234
15. Notes 253
16. Index 335
17. About the author 349