INTRODUCTION The Legacy and Human Cost of Slavery
CHAPTER ONE “Nits Make Lice”:
Genocidal Violence in Colonial America
CHAPTER TWO A “State of War Continued”:
White Fear, Black Warriors
CHAPTER THREE Three “The Past Is Never Dead”:
The Continuity of African and European Warfare Practices
CHAPTER FOUR Four The Abridgment of Hope
CHAPTER FIVE “In the Hands of the Master”:
The Virginia Debates
CHAPTER SIX Would Have to “See His Blood Flow”:
Reopening the African Slave Trade
CHAPTER SEVEN John Brown’s Mistake:
The Power of Memory and the Dangers of Violence
CHAPTER EIGHT Making “Hell for a Country”:
The Civil War and Post–Civil War Era