Contents

Foreword

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 the Continental 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 and 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