The American Slave Coast by Sublette, Ned -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Part One: The Capitalized Womb

1 The Mother of Slavery 2 Protectionism, or, The Importance of 1808 3 A Literature of Terror 4 Natural Increase 5 Little Shadows 6 Species of Property

Part Two: The Chesapeake and the Lowcountry

7 Rawrenock 8 A Cargo of Shining Dirt 9 Our Principall Wealth 10 Maria’s Land 11 Barbados 12 The Anglo-Saxon Model 13 Carolina 14 The Separate Traders 15 Charles Town 16 Savannah and Stono 17 A Rough Set of People, but Somewhat Caressed 18 Ballast

Part Three: Silent Profit

19 Newspapers as Money as People 20 Lord Dunmore’s Blackbirds 21 The General Inconvenience 22 The Fugue of Silences 23 Ten Thousand Powers 24 The French Revolution in America

Part Four: The Star-spangled Slave Trade

25 The Cotton Club 26 The Terrible Republic 27 I Do Not Threaten the Government with Civil War 28 These Infernal Principles 29 The Hireling and Slave 30 A Jog of the Elbow

Part Five: The Slaveocracy

31 Swallowed by Millions 32 Democratizing Capital 33 Old Robbers 34 Wake Up Rich 35 The Slave Trade to Cuba and Brazil 36 Heaps and Piles of Money 37 The Slave Power 38 Manifest Destiny’s Child 39 A Letter from Virginia 40 Communists in Blackface 41 Hiring Day

Part Six: The Revolution

42 Vanish Like a Dream 43 A Snake Biting Its Tail 44 Assignment in Paraguay 45 The Decommissioning of Human Capital 46 A Weird, Plaintive Wail

Coda Acknowledgments Picture Credits Notes References