Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Foreword xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 War, Slavery, and Christianity 13
6. 2 Founders 33
7. Interlude NAMES OF THE ENSLAVED 48
8. 3 West Indian Trade, Connecticut, and the College 53
9. 4 Slavery and the American Revolution 75
10. Interlude GRADUAL EMANCIPATION IN CONNECTICUT 103
11. 5 Yale in the Early Republic 108
12. 6 The 1831 Black College 141
13. 7 La Amistad 157
14. 8 Antebellum Yale and Its Abolitionist Discontents 176
15. 9 Yale and New Haven in the Civil War 212
16. Interlude A YALE FAMILY IN SLAVERY AND FREEDOM 242
17. 10 Black Students at Yale 248
18. Interlude BLACK EMPLOYEES AT YALE 274
19. 11 Embracing the White South 285
20. 12 Yale’s Civil War Memorial 306
21. Interlude THE BIRTH OF A NATION IN NEW HAVEN, 1915 328
22. Epilogue 335
23. Notes 347
24. Acknowledgments 407
25. Index 415