Complicated lives: free Blacks in Virginia, 1619-1865
African origins -- The voyage -- Jamestown -- Property -- Transforming servitude -- Restrictions on civil liberties -- The Revolutionary War and its impact on free Blacks -- Manumissions and status changes -- National leaders and the anti-slavery slaveholding paradox -- Reversals, registration, kidnappings and social interactions -- The Civil War and Jim Crow -- Epilogue: Story replication.