The export boom in Barbados -- Land and labor during the export boom -- Who financed the sugar boom? -- The growth of the Barbadian sugar industry over the seventeenth century -- Origins of the Barbadian plantation complex -- The expansion of Barbados -- Epilogue: rethinking the sugar revolution.

"By 1860, the value of the slave population in the United States exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in factories, railroads, and banks combined, and worth more even than the South's lucrative farmland. The slave was not only a commodity to be traded but also a kind of...

Putting racial formation theory to work : a women-centered, transdisciplinary, and intersectional approach -- The lost files of Irish immigration history : the Irish woman question and racialized manual labors -- Southern mammy and African American "immigrant" women : reconstituting white...

Part I. Captured and caged : and still they built new worlds -- 1. Black bodies : white minds, and the irony of liberty -- 2. Black hands : native lands, and the making of Mount Vernon -- 3. Black minds : blueprints, and the enslaved and free Black artisans of Federal City -- 4. Black builders :...

Emancipation and the politics of Black labor -- Jim Crow's Black workers -- The great Black labor migration -- A new deal for Black workers -- The Black working-class movement for civil rights -- Opening the American workplace