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1. Introduction
2. Africans before Captivity
3. Medieval West Africa
4. West Africa, 1300 – 1800AD
5. West Central Africa, 14th – 18th Centuries
6. Introduction
7. The Transatlantic Slave Trade
8. Which Europeans Trafficked in Slaves?
9. Summary
10. Primary Sources
11. Introduction
12. The Settling of Virginia
13. Tightening the Bonds of Slavery
14. Africans in the Low Country
15. Introduction
16. African Americans and the Rhetoric of Revolution
17. Fighting Their Way to Freedom
18. The Impact of the Revolution on Slavery
19. Primary Sources
20. Introduction
21. Language
22. Spiritual Life: Public & Secret
23. Performing Culture in Music & Dance
24. Introduction
25. The Abolitionist Movement
26. Atlantic Origins of Reform
27. William Lloyd Garrison
28. Frederick Douglass
29. Primary Sources
30. Introduction
31. The Creation Of The Cotton Kingdom
32. The Domestic Slave Trade
33. Life as a Slave in the Cotton Kingdom
34. The Free Black Population
35. Introduction
36. The Sectional Crisis
37. The Crisis Joined
38. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
39. From Sectional Crisis to National Crisis
40. Introduction
41. The Election of 1860 and Secession
42. A War for Union? (1861—1862)
43. War for Freedom (1863—1865)
44. Black Soldiers and Union War Victories (1864—1865)
45. Primary Sources
46. Introduction
47. Politics of Reconstruction
48. Racial Violence in Reconstruction
49. The End of Reconstruction
50. Footnote Attribution List
51. Request Access
52. I Need Help
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