• Chapter 1-Old Worlds Collide through the Atlantic Slave Trade


• Chapter 2-Putting Slavery Into Place in the American Colonies


• Chapter 3-Early Challenges to Slavery in America


• Chapter 4-America Built on Slavery


• Chapter 5-Making Life Bearable


• Chapter 6--Domination and Resistance


• Chapter 7--Taking Slavery Apart


• Epilogue

Heather Andrea Williams is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery, and Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom.

A concise history of slavery in America, including the daily life of American slaves, the laws that sought to legitimize white supremacy, the anti-slavery movement, and the abolition of slavery