Introduction. The legacy and human cost of slavery
"Nits make lice": genocidal violence in colonial America
A "state of war continued": white fear, black warriors
"The past is never dead": the continuity of African and European warfare practices
The abridgment of hope: after Nat Turner
"In the hands of the master": the Virginia debates
Seeing their blood flow: reopening the African slave trade
John Brown's mistake: the power of memory and the dangers of violence
Making "hell for a country": the Civil War and post-Civil War era
Epilogue. the "place for which our fathers sighed".