David Waldstreicher is Association Professor of History at Temple University. His recent works include Runaway America : Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution (Hill and Wang, 2004) and The Envisioning America and Notes on the State of Virginia and Confessions of: Nat Turner (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002).

This is a book we've been waiting for, for a long time....Outstanding....Well annotated with wonderful black and white reproductions of art....Children will be fascinated with the letters reproduced...they give a very now feeling to history.

• What is a Document?How to Read a DocumentIntroduction: Vanguards of Freedom Chapter One: The Making of American Slavery Capture and TransportEarly ResistanceSlaves' Lives in the ColoniesRebels and Runaways Chapter Two: The African-American Revolution Liberty For All?Lord Dunmore and the Promise of FreedomThe Declaration of Independence and the Question of SlaveryRevolutionary SoldiersEquality DisputedRevolutionary Ideals Chapter Three: Forging Freedom and Fighting Slavery in the North First Steps to FreedomAn End to the Slave TradeOpponents to ColonizationFree Blacks Speak OutAnother Independence DayThe Call for Civil Rights Chapter Four: Picture Essay: Slavery and Freedom: Dressing the Part Chapter Five: The Continual Struggle: Southern Slaves and Masters Private and Public RebellionDisobedience and DisciplineSubversion, Suffering, and Escape Chapter Six: The Second American Revolution and the End of Slavery Justified RebellionA Welcome WarEmancipationLiberation TimelineFurther ReadingText CreditsPicture CreditsIndex

David Waldstreicher is Association Professor of History at Temple University. His recent works include Runaway America : Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution (Hill and Wang, 2004) and The Envisioning America and Notes on the State of Virginia and Confessions of: Nat Turner (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002).

This is a book we've been waiting for, for a long time....Outstanding....Well annotated with wonderful black and white reproductions of art....Children will be fascinated with the letters reproduced...they give a very now feeling to history.

• What is a Document?How to Read a DocumentIntroduction: Vanguards of Freedom Chapter One: The Making of American Slavery Capture and TransportEarly ResistanceSlaves' Lives in the ColoniesRebels and Runaways Chapter Two: The African-American Revolution Liberty For All?Lord Dunmore and the Promise of FreedomThe Declaration of Independence and the Question of SlaveryRevolutionary SoldiersEquality DisputedRevolutionary Ideals Chapter Three: Forging Freedom and Fighting Slavery in the North First Steps to FreedomAn End to the Slave TradeOpponents to ColonizationFree Blacks Speak OutAnother Independence DayThe Call for Civil Rights Chapter Four: Picture Essay: Slavery and Freedom: Dressing the Part Chapter Five: The Continual Struggle: Southern Slaves and Masters Private and Public RebellionDisobedience and DisciplineSubversion, Suffering, and Escape Chapter Six: The Second American Revolution and the End of Slavery Justified RebellionA Welcome WarEmancipationLiberation TimelineFurther ReadingText CreditsPicture CreditsIndex

David Waldstreicher is Association Professor of History at Temple University. His recent works include Runaway America : Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution (Hill and Wang, 2004) and The Envisioning America and Notes on the State of Virginia and Confessions of: Nat Turner (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002).

This is a book we've been waiting for, for a long time....Outstanding....Well annotated with wonderful black and white reproductions of art....Children will be fascinated with the letters reproduced...they give a very now feeling to history.

• What is a Document?How to Read a DocumentIntroduction: Vanguards of Freedom Chapter One: The Making of American Slavery Capture and TransportEarly ResistanceSlaves' Lives in the ColoniesRebels and Runaways Chapter Two: The African-American Revolution Liberty For All?Lord Dunmore and the Promise of FreedomThe Declaration of Independence and the Question of SlaveryRevolutionary SoldiersEquality DisputedRevolutionary Ideals Chapter Three: Forging Freedom and Fighting Slavery in the North First Steps to FreedomAn End to the Slave TradeOpponents to ColonizationFree Blacks Speak OutAnother Independence DayThe Call for Civil Rights Chapter Four: Picture Essay: Slavery and Freedom: Dressing the Part Chapter Five: The Continual Struggle: Southern Slaves and Masters Private and Public RebellionDisobedience and DisciplineSubversion, Suffering, and Escape Chapter Six: The Second American Revolution and the End of Slavery Justified RebellionA Welcome WarEmancipationLiberation TimelineFurther ReadingText CreditsPicture CreditsIndex