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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
An Opening Word: Black Slavery, Black Freedom
Maps
Chapter 1 - The View from Israel Hill, 1863
Chapter 2 - Liberty and Happiness
Citizen Richard Randolph and His Slaves
Chapter 3 - The Promised Land
As Comfortable as the Best in Israel Hill
Neighbors
To Inclose His Little Plantation: The Free Black Drive for Independence
Chapter 4 - Work
Sweating Like a Harvest Field Hand
Craft, Mystery, and Occupation
To Run the Road with a Waggon or the River with a Boat
Chapter 5 - Challenges
Nat Turner
Edmund Young and Free Black Resistance
Idleness, Poverty, and Dissipation: The Birth of a Proslavery Myth
Chapter 6 - Law and Order
Boisterous Passions and Paneless Windows
To Maim, Disfigure, Disable, and Kill
Chapter 7 - Worldviews
Kindred Cultures
Callousness and Closeness
Clashing Values
The Wisdom of Solomon
Chapter 8 - Progress and Struggle
For Richer, for Poorer
Black Freedom and the Crisis of the Union
Chapter 9 - Appomattox and the New Birth of Freedom
Postscript - The Search for Meaning in the Southern Free Black Experience
Documents
Will of Richard Randolph
Will of Betty Dwin
Will of Thomas Ford
Colonel James Madison on Emancipated Slaves
Will of Philip Bowman
Will of Anthony (Tony) White
Sources and Interpretations
Abbreviations in Notes and Remarks on Primary Sources
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
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