Emancipating New York: the politics of slavery and freedom, 1777-1827

No exit. Labor, law, and resistance in the eighteenth century ; Unfinished revolutions

Identities. 1785 : the road not taken ; Containing slavery : the Manumission Society and the law, 1785-92 ; Pirates, sugar, debtors, and Federalists : the paradoxes of antislavery political economy ; Race, citizenship, sentiment, and the construction of an antislavery public sphere ; Slavery and the politics of upheaval : the 1790s ; Ambiguous victory : gradual abolition becomes law

Reflections. Freedom, slavery, memory, and modernity, 1800-27

Epilogue : inescapable.