Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue: Feudalism, American Style ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I RACIAL FEUDALISM
6. Chapter 1 What Was “Feudalism”? 23
7. Chapter 2 Jeffersonian Confusions 42
8. Chapter 3 Proslavery Elaborations 67
9. Chapter 4 Black Critiques 98
10. MIDDLE PASSAGE
11. Chapter 5 Cheating Social Death 137
12. PART II BLACK LIBERALISM
13. Chapter 6 What Was Black Liberalism? 157
14. Chapter 7 “Almost Living in the Dark Ages”: The Literature of Black Liberalism 169
15. Chapter 8 “The Philosophy of His Crimes”: Black Women’s Interventions 184
16. Chapter 9 “Why Am I Black?”: Frederick Douglass and Identity-Aware Liberalism 209
17. Epilogue: Up from Feudalism 233
18. Acknowledgments 243
19. Notes 249
20. Bibliography 311
21. Index 341
22. A Note on the Type 351