Chapter 1: Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Chapter 2: The Evolution of Slavery in British North America. Chapter 3: Slavery and Freedom in the Age of revolution. Chapter 4: The Early Republic and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom. Chapter 5: Slavery and the Slave Community. Chapter 6: Free People of Color and the Fight against Slavery. Chapter 7: From Militancy to Civil War. Chapter 8: From Reconstruction to Jim Crow.