William H. Williams is southern coordinator of the University of Delaware's Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program and professor of history in the Del Tech/University of Delaware Parallel Program in Georgetown, Delaware.

• Chapter 1 The Dutch Legacy and Its AftermathChapter 2 The Land and LaborChapter 3 Images, Perceptions, and the Exercise of ControlChapter 4 Making a Life Despite SlaveryChapter 5 The Long Road to FreedomChapter 6 "A Mongrel Libery, A Mere Mock Freedom"Chapter 7 A More Independent People

Williams has relied on his thorough familiarity with manuscript resources in Delaware to provide readers with a developmental narrative of how slavery and freedom evolved in Delaware, and how the evolution of both affected blacks, whites, and their relationship with one another. Throughout, his authorial voice is moderate, his analysis is anchored in evidence, and his engagement in historiographical controversy is selective but nevertheless interesting and well considered.