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Prologue Looking Out From Slavery

• Extraordinary people did extraordinary things in difficult circumstances.

• Focusing on too small of time periods is not sufficient, according to the author.

• African Americans contributed to the formation of a new political nation.

• African Americans exposed the relationship between labor and democracy.

Part 1, Chapter 1 Of Chains and Threads

• Lincoln's victory was thought to bring freedom to slaves.

• There was great diversity in antebellum South slavery.

• During the mid-19th century, slave-master relationships changed.

• Southern slaveholders tried to encourage and organize communities.

• Slave revolts still took place in some areas.

• Rumors of slave insurrection ran across the South.

Part 1, Chapter 2 The Choked Voices of a Race at Last Unloosed

• Political inclusion of women and blacks was ignored.

• Slaveholders and slaves thought the Republican party to be hostile toward slavery.

• Slave rebellions began.

• Military personnel were prohibited from returning slaves to owners.

• Black self-management began...

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