• Introduction


• Part One: The Upper South's Travail


• Chapter 1 : Owning Slaves, Disowning Slavery


• Chapter 2 Rebellion and Reaction


• Part Two: The Lower South's Embrace of Slavery


• Chapter 3 Opening the Slave Trade


• Chapter 4 Extending Slavery


• Part Three: Paternalism Rising


• Chapter 5 Paternalism Emerges


• Chapter 6 Paternalism Contested


• Part Four: Paternalism in Crisis


• Chapter 7 The Scare


• Chapter 8 Analyzing the Scare


• Chapter 9 Reacting to the Scare


• Section Five: Words and Deeds


• Chapter 10 Discourses of Colonization


• Chapter 11 Rumors and Insurrection


• Part Six: The Upper South Responds


• Chapter 12 The Upper South Debates Slavery and Colonization


• Chapter 13 Tennessee Debates Slavery


• Chapter 14 Ending Free Black Suffrage in North Carolina


• Section Seven: The Lower South Responds


• Chapter 15 Reaction in the Lower South


• Chapter 16 Abolition Poison and Southern Antidotes


• Chapter 17 The Ideological Reconfiguration of Slavery in the Lower South


• Conclusion


• Notes

Professor of History, University of South Carolina

A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson.