TABLE OF CONTENTS: Letter from Antigua xi PART I: The Puritan Chapter 1: The Land 3 Chapter 2: Ten Hills Farm 21 Chapter 3: Possession 36 PART II: The Immigrant Chapter 4: The King's Forester 53 Chapter 5: Favors to the Few 62 Chapter 6: Happy Instruments to Enlarge Our Dominions 80 Chapter 7: Slavers of the North 97 Chapter 8: Come Up in the Night with Them 102 Chapter 9: You May Own Negroes and Negresses 116 PART III: The Master Chapter 10: Antigua 125 Chapter 11: Crime, Punishment, and Compensation 145 Chapter 12: Homecoming 156 Chapter 13: The Benefactor 167 Chapter 14: Luxury on the Grandest Scale 183 PART IV: The Petitioner Chapter 15: We Shall Not Be Slaves 197 Chapter 16: Within the Bowels of a Free Country 206 Chapter 17: Death Is Not the Worst of Evils 215 Chapter 18: Reparations 228 PART V: The Legacy Chapter 19: City upon a Hill 239 Afterword Letter from Antigua, Easter Monday, 2008 257 Note to Readers 267 Notes on Sources 271 Acknowledgments 305 List of Illustrations 309 Index 311 Return to Book Description File created: 5/13/2011 |