Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Black Politics and U.S. Politics in the Age of Revolutions, Reconstructions, and Emancipations 1
4. Chapter 1. Women’s Politics, Antislavery Politics, and Phillis Wheatley’s American Revolution 24
5. Chapter 2. Rethinking White Supremacy: Black Resistance and the Problem of Slaveholder Authority 41
6. Chapter 3. In the Woodpile: Negro Electors in the First Reconstruction 66
7. Chapter 4. Freedom and the Politics of Migration After the American Revolution 84
8. Chapter 5. Black Migration, Black Villages, and Black Emancipation in Antebellum Illinois 102
9. Chapter 6. Practicing Formal Politics Without the Vote: Black New Yorkers in the Aftermath of 1821 116
10. Chapter 7. “Agitation, Tumult, Violence Will Not Cease”: Black Politics and the Compromise of 1850 139
11. Chapter 8. Black Politics and the “Foul and Infamous Lie” of Dred Scott 157
12. Chapter 9. The “Free Cuba” Campaign, Republican Politics, and Post–Civil War Black Internationalism 176
13. Chapter 10. The Southern Division: Freedpeople, Pensions, and Federal State Building in the Post-C onfederate South 198
14. Epilogue. Telling and Retelling: The Diversity of Black Political Practices 216
15. Afterword 223
16. Notes 231
17. List of Contributors 305
18. Index 307
19. Acknowledgments 313