Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS iii
3. Acknowledgements v
4. List of Maps vii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Red, White and Black? Native Americans, Europeans and Africans Meet in the Chesapeake 11
7. 2. Systematising Slavery: The Making of the Plantation System in the Eighteenth Century 35
8. 3. Slavery, Race and the American Revolution 63
9. 4. A White Man’s Republic in the Antebellum South 88
10. 5. The Paradoxical Institution: Antebellum Slavery 119
11. 6. A Fragile Freedom: The Civil War and the Collapse of Slavery 149
12. 7. ‘The White Supreme’: Race Relations in the Jim Crow South 180
13. 8. A World of Their Own: Black Culture and Resistance 208
14. 9. The Challenge of Reform: The South in the Era of the World Wars 233
15. 10. Moderates and Militants: The Struggle for the White South 262
16. 11. ‘We Shall Overcome’: The Civil Rights Movement 290
17. 12. A Dream Unfulfilled: Race in the Contemporary South 320
18. Conclusion 336
19. Chronology 345
20. Guide to Further Reading 354
21. Index 375