Introduction: Freedom, Slavery, and the Legacy of the American Revolution
"Our Laborers Are Our Property": The Southern Slave Economy
"Each Person Works for Himself": The Ideal and Reality of Free Labor
"A Complete Revolution in Social Life": Cultural Change in the Antebellum North
"The Anointed Lords of Creation": Culture and Society in the Antebellum South
"Called by the Same Name": The Many Meanings of Liberty
To "Fight Against the Serpent": Antislavery and Its Early Progress
"A Firebell in the Night": The Struggle Escalates
"Keep It Within Limits": Western Lands and Free Soil
"Anti Nebraska Feeling Is Too Deep": Origins and Triumph of Republicanism
"The Inexorable Logic of Events": Secession, War, and Emancipation
Afterword: On Popular Mobilization in the Civil War Era.
