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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABSTRACT -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER TWO - SLAVES AS CONTRABAND OF WAR -- CHAPTER THREE - THE COMMANDERS TAKE CHARGE -- CHAPTER FOUR - COMMANDERS AND THE CONFLICT OF POLITICS -- CHAPTER FIVE - FIELDS OF COTTON OR FIELDS OF FIRE? -- CHAPTER SIX - THE ROAD TO RECONSTRUCTION -- CHAPTER SEVEN - CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Articles -- Books -- Government Documents -- Periodicals.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Hardships of Slaves -- Chapter 1: Slavery and Life on the Plantation -- Chapter 2: Slave Narratives and Famous Writings by Slaves -- Chapter 3: Reactions and Consequences -- Chapter 4: The Legacy of Slave Narratives -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Further Information -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

"This book challenges prevailing models of the ways formerly enslaved individuals in Ancient Rome navigated their social and economic landscape. Drawing on the rich epigraphic evidence left behind by municipal freedmen and freedwomen, who had been owned and manumitted by the communities of Roman Italy, it pushes back against ameliorating views of slavery as a temporary condition and positive notions of a prosperous and consciously proud Roman freedman class. Manumission was a far more complex process, and it did not always put former slaves and their descendants on the straight and narrow path of upward mobility"--