Douglas R. Egerton is Professor of Political and Social History at Le Moyne College.

• Section I 1. Black Independence Struggles and the Tale of Two Revolutions 2. The Tricolor in Black and White 3. An Upright Man: Gabriel's Virginia and the Path to Slave Rebellion 4. Gabriel's Conspiracry and the Election of 1800 5. Fly Across the River: The Easter Slave Conspiracry of 1802 6. Why They Did Not Preach Up This Thing: Denmark Vessey and Revolutionary Theology 7. Nat Turner in a Hemispheric Context Section II 8. Charles Fenton Mercer and Public Education in Virginia 9. Rethinking the Origins of the American Colonization Society 10. An Update on Jacksonianian Historgraphy: The Biographies 11. Markets Without a Market Revolution: Southern Planters and Capitalism 12. Averting a Crisis: The Proslavery Critique of the American Colonization Society Section III 13. Thomas Jefferson and the Hemings Family: A Matter of Blood 14. The Empire of Liberty Reconsidered

"By taking the thinking of enslaved and free blacks no less seriously than that of those who had come to constitute a ruling race, Douglas Egerton has gone far toward redrawing the boundaries of what traditionally has been segregated in intellectual, social, or military history. In the process, Egerton reveals much, not only about the making of the United States, but of the historian's craft. Students and specialists alike will find much of value in this historiographical gem." -- Norrece T. Jones, Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University"Egerton's collection displays his prowess as a social and political historian." -- Philip Schwarz, The Journal of Southern History