CONTENTS
FROM THE EDITOR
Exploring Slavery's Roots in Colonial America
Ira Berlin
ARTICLES
Recent Literature on Slavery in Colonial North America
Donald R. Wright
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Colonial Chesapeake Slavery
Lorena S. Walsh
Slavery in the North
Shane White
Slavery in the Lower South
Jane Landers
COLONIAL SLAVERY IN THE CLASSROOM
"Amazing Grace": Literature as a Window on Colonial Slavery
James G. Basker
LESSON PLANS
Complicating Slavery: Teaching with Runaway Slave Advertisements from Northern Colonies
Matthew Mason and Rita G. Koman
Virginia's Black Codes: Uncovering the Evolution of Legal Slavery
Gary Hart
The Code Noir: Construction of Slavery in French Colonial Louisiana
Kevin Arlyck
TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS FROM THE GILDER LEHRMAN COLLECTION
Using Primary Source Documents: African Americans in the Revolutionary War
Steven Mintz
TEACHING TALKING HISTORY
Using Petitions to Teach Slavery
Damon Freeman
BRINGING HISTORY ALIVE
The Survey, Again
Julie Roy Jeffrey
INTERNET RESOURCES
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and American Slavery
Ellen Bucy
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
HISTORY HEADLINES