Contents

Introduction

Chapters

1.  Virginia-Jamestown Colony to 

        Landed Aristocracy 

     Jamestown Settlement 

     Tobacco, Indentured Servants and   
      “Headright System” 

      Indentured Servitude Legislation

      Development of the Landed Aristocracy 

      The 1619 Purchase of Africans     

     Treatment and Status of Negroes in the

       Virginia Colony 

     Changing Status of Negroes-Indentured
         Servants to Slaves     

     Virginia Slave Codes 

     Legislators Use Racism to Justify
         Slavery 

     Enslavement of the Negro in 1662
       Legislation

    Negroes as Property by Common-Law
       Revision   

     Rape of A Slave-A Trespass Against the
       Master's Property

     Punishments for a Slave 

     Slavery-Solution to a Labor Shortage 


2.  The Tidewater Aristocrats-Men of the     
         American Revolution  

     George Washington

      George Washington-Virginia Aristocrat    

      Surveyor, Soldier, & Plantation Owner

     American Revolutionary
     Commander-in-Chief of the Continental
        Army

    George Washington-Slaveholder

       Thomas Jefferson

      Thomas Jefferson-Virginia Aristocrat

      Peter & Jane Randolph-Jefferson's
        Family “Connections”

      Peter Jefferson-Virginia Civil Servant 

      Peter Jefferson-Surveyor and Mapmaker       Thomas Jefferson-Early Formal
       Education    

      Peter Jefferson's Estate

     College Education  

     Virginia Lawyer & Legislator

     Thomas Jefferson-Slaveholder
     Courtship of Martha Wayles Skelton    

     John Wayles' Estate        

     American Revolutionary, Political
       Theorist & Author 
    Virginia Reformist
    Virginia Governor, Congressional
       Delegate & American Minister

      James Madison

    Madison & Taylor Family Lineage 
   Ambrose & Frances Taylor-Madison's
      Family “Connections”   

   James Sr. & Nelly Conway-Madison's
     Family “Connections” 

   James Madison-Virginia Aristocrat 

   James Madison Sr.-Virginia Landowner,
     Vestryman & Slaveholder

   James Madison-Early Education 

  Formal Education 

  College Preparation  

  Student at the College of New Jersey at
     Princeton 

  American Revolutionaries at Princeton    

  Advocate of Religious and Civil Liberty

   American Revolutionary   

  Virginia Legislator 

  Member of the Governor's Council 

  Virginia Delegate to the Continental
     Congress    

  James Madison-Nationalist   

  Impost Amendment 

  Congressional Term Ends   

  Virginia Legislator 

  Virginia Reformist 

  Constitutional Theorist    

  James Madison-Slaveholder 

  Republican Theorist 

  Virginia Delegate to theContinental

     Congress & the 1787 Federal

     Convention

3. Documents of Dissolution, 

     Revolution, and Democracy 

   Doctrine of Natural Rights       

   Slavery & the Social Contract
  Virginians, the Continental Congress &
      Colonial Independence
  John Locke, Thomas Jefferson the Declaration

     of Independence 

  A Charter for Human Rights 

 The Articles of Confederation

  The United States-“A Firm League of   
    Friendship” 

   A Fragile Republic

  Foreign Occupation 

  Foreign & Domestic Trade Disputes 

  Financial Instability 

  Land Disputes 

   Domestic Insurrection-Shays' Rebellion

  The Constitutional Convention 

  “Virginia Plan” 

   “New Jersey Plan” 

   “Connecticut Compromise” 

  “Three-Fifths” Compromise 

    A Bicameral Legislature

   Constitutional Concessions to Slavery 

   The Northwest Ordinance & Three-Fifths
      Compromise

   Supremacy Clause

    Supreme Court & Constitutional
       Interpretation

    Another Trade-Off to Slavery 

    The United States Constitution-Adopted
       & Ratified

    James Madison-“Father of the Bill of
       Rights”

   The Contradiction in the Fifth Amendment

   A Slave Named Dred Scott

  Dred Scott v. Emerson

  Dred Scott v. Sandford

  Slavery in the Territories-A   
     Constitutional Issue

  Missouri Compromise of 1820 

   Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) 

   The Dred Scott Decision

   Property Rights and the Due Process
      Clause of the Fifth Amendment

   The Constitutionality of the Missouri
      Compromise

   Seccession, the Confederate Constitution,
       and Civil War
   Thirteenth Amendment to the  United
      States Constitution

Conclusion 

Bibliographies


Annotated Bibliography

Bibliography