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These essays focus on how African Americans resisted slavery and how they responded when finally free. The stage is set by stressing the relationship between how we understand slavery and how we discuss race today. Then follows an examination of all aspects of slavery in America.

Slavery --- Memory --- Government, Resistance to --- Fugitive slaves --- Slave insurrections --- African Americans --- African American leadership --- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) --- Carpetbag rule (U.S. history, 1865-1877) --- Reconstruction (1865-1877) --- Postwar reconstruction --- Afro-American leadership --- Leadership, African American --- Negro leadership --- Leadership --- Slave rebellions --- Slave revolts --- Revolutions --- Runaway slaves --- Slaves --- Civil resistance --- Non-resistance to government --- Resistance to government --- Political science --- Political violence --- Insurgency --- Nonviolence --- Retention (Psychology) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- History. --- Historiography. --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- History --- Insurrections, etc. --- United States --- Participation, African American. --- Enslaved persons --- Political resistance