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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: I Am the King of the Counter- Revolution: Revolution and Emancipation in Hispaniola, 1789-1795 -- CHAPTER TWO: The Courage to Conquer Their Natural Liberty: Conflicts over Emancipation in French Santo Domingo, 1795-1801 -- CHAPTER THREE: Santo Domingo and the Rise of Toussaint Louverture, 1795-1801 -- CHAPTER FOUR: Uprooting the Tree of Liberty? Toussaint Louverture in Santo Domingo, 1801-1802 -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Shame of the Nation: The Force of Reenslavement and the Law of Slavery under the Regime of Ferrand, 1804-1809

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Epigraphs -- Prologue. At the Heart of Slavery -- Chapter 1. England's First Slave Society, Barbados -- Chapter 2. Animate Capital -- Chapter 3. The Domestication of Slavery in South Carolina -- Chapter 4. The Militarization of Slavery in Jamaica -- Chapter 5. The Transformation of Slavery's Politics -- Chapter 6. The Slaveholders Retrench -- Chapter 7. The Political Significance of Slave Resistance -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Maps -- Index

University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between universities and pro-slavery thought. Proslavery faculty wrote about the economic and historical importance of slavery and helped shape a proslavery jurisprudence that made it harder to free slaves and pushed the South towards Civil War.

resolutions agreed upon during a January 25, 1838, Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society meeting criticizing the Congressional Gag Law and slaveholding in general.