CONTENTS

introduction to the 2023 edition
by Robin D. G. Kelley

author’s introduction

FIGHTING BONDAGE ON LAND AND SEA

1. The First Rebels

DAILY TOIL, PERILOUS STRUGGLE

2. A “Troublesome Property”

3. The Battle for Family and Knowledge

4. Disrupting Plantation Life

5. Industrial and Urban Resistance

6. Music for Jesus, Lyrics of Freedom

FLIGHT AND REVOLT

7. Escaping Bondage and Maroon Colonies

8. Revolts in the Age of Revolution

9. Nineteenth-Century Rebels against Slavery

10. The Fiery Abolitionists

MARCHING TO FREEDOM

11. The Enslaved People’s Civil War

12. The Bayonets of Freedom

13. From Liberation . . . to Protest