1. Africa and the Atlantic slave trade.
2. The evolution of slavery in British North America.
3. Slavery and freedom in the age of revolution.
4. The early republic and the rise of the cotton kingdom.
5. Slavery and the slave community.
6. Free people of color and the fight against slavery.
7. From militancy to Civil War.
8. From Reconstruction to Jim Crow.
9. Populism, industrial unions, and the politics of race.
10. The Harlem Renaissance between the wars.
12. The postwar Civil Rights movement.
13. From civil rights to Black power.
14. Conservatism and race in multicultural America.
15. Race-ing to the millennium.