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| Preface | |
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| The Historians' South | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Continuity of Southern History | |
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| The Search for Southern Identity | |
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| The Difficulty of Consensus on the South | |
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| The Three Souths | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Atlantic World | |
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| Documents | |
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| Map Shows Sixteenth-Century Atlantic Trade Ports, c. 1620 | |
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| Plants, Animals, and Microorganisms Travel to and from the New World, 1500�1600 | |
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| African Medicinal Plants Come to the Caribbean on Slave Ships, 1500�1600 | |
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| Elmina, a Dutch Slave Fort, Holds African Slaves Captive before the Middle Passage, c. 1600 | |
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| Englishman John Hawkins Details His First Voyage to the West Indies, 1562�1563 | |
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| Guzman de Silva Writes to Philip II Regarding the Slave Trade, 1565 | |
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| Journal of the Arthur Details the Slave Trade, 1677�1678 | |
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| John Barbot Describes the Slave Trade in Guinea, 1678 | |
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| Essays | |
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| From Creole to African | |
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| Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society | |
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| Virginia's Other Prototype | |
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| The Caribbean | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Settlement of Red, White, and Black | |
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| Documents | |
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| Captain John Smith Describes the Natives of Virginia, 1612 | |
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| Richard Frethorne Writes His Parents about His Indenture, 1623 | |
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| Nathaniel Bacon Leads Rebellion in Virginia, 1675�1676 | |
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| Virginia's House of Burgesses Tightens Statutes Involving Slaves, 1630�1705 | |
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| South Carolina Restricts the Liberties of Slaves, 1740 | |
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| Indian Trader John Lawson Writes about His Travels in Carolina, 1709 | |
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| The South Carolina Colonial Legislature Regulates the Indian Trade, 1751 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Gender and Race in Colonial Virginia | |
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| Making Do | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Maturing of the Colonial South | |
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| Documents | |
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| Eliza Lucas Writes on Life in Colonial South Carolina, 1740�1742 | |
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| Colonial Georgia Debates Slavery, 1735�1750 | |
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| South Carolina Newspapers Advertise for Runaway Slaves, 1743�1784 | |
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| Merchant Robert Pringle Observes Life and Trade in Charleston, 1739�1743 | |
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| William Byrd II Discovers New Crops in Virginia and Deals with Cherokee and Catawba Indians, 1738�1740 | |
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| Reverend Charles Woodmason Decries the "Wild Peoples" of the Carolina Backcountry, 1768 | |
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| Naturalist William Bartram Describes His Travels in the South, 1773�1777 | |
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| Essays | |
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| How Tobacco Production Shaped Slave Life in the Chesapeake | |
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| Georgia's Attempt to Become a Viable Colony | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Revolutionary South and Its Aftermath | |
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| Documents | |
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| Men in the Backcountry Articulate Their Grievances, 1767 | |
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| Ministers Try to Convert the Carolina Backcountry, 1775 | |
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| Lord Dunmore, Issues His Proclamation to Free Virginia's Slaves, 1775 | |
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| Thomas Jefferson Establishes Religious Freedom in Virginia, 1777 | |
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| Eliza Wilkinson Describes Women and War, 1779 | |
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| Southern Patriots Explain Their Concerns, 1774, 1780, 1781 | |
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| The U.S. Constitution Deals with Slavery, 1787 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Impact of African American Resistance During the War | |
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| Class War? | |
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| Class Struggles during the American Revolution in Virginia | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Emergence of Southern Nationalism | |
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| Documents | |
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| Virginia and Kentucky Respond to the Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798, 1799 | |
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| Southern Congressmen Defend Slavery in Missouri, 1820 | |
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| Newspapers React to the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina, 1832 | |
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| Georgia Passes Laws Extending Jurisdiction over the Cherokees, 1829, 1830 | |
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| The Supreme Court Addresses Removal of the Indians from Georgia, 1831 | |
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| John C. Calhoun Defends Slavery, 1837 | |
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| South Carolina Tries to Nullify Federal Tariffs, 1832 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Civilizing the Cotton Frontier | |
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| The Missouri Controversy | |
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| A CriticalMoment in Southern Sectionalism | |
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| Pauline Maier: The Road Not Taken | |
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| Nullification, John C. Calhoun, and the Revolutionary Tradition in South Carolina | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Slaveholders' | |