7 INTRODUCTION
  Chapter I
  THE COLONIAL PERIOD
20 Black Slaves in the New World
37 Down with Slavery!
65 The Revolutionary Situation
  Chapter II
  THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE
79 Black Americans and the Revolution
91 On the Battlefield for Freedom
98 The Revolution Sanctions Slavery
  Chapter III
  THE PERIOD BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS
104 The Russian Public and Slavery in America
112 “The Unavoidable Conflict”
  Chapter IV
  THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
122 Slavery—the Main Problem of the Revolution
130 Black Americans in the Civil War
143 The Revolution Continues
  Chapter V
  EMANCIPATION WITHOUT FREEDOM
158 “Shame on America for the Plight of the Negroes!”
165 World War I
170 World War II
  Chapter VI
  FASCISM DEFEATED, RACISM PRESERVED
180 America’s Black Bottom
193 The Rise of the Black Liberation Movement
209 The Working Class and Afro-Americans
221 The Struggle Against Racism
253 CONCLUSION
257 NOTES
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