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Contents Letter from Antigua xi PART I The Puritan 1 The Land 3 2 Ten Hills Farm 21 3 Possession 36 PART II The Immigrant 4 The King’s Forester 53 5 Favors to the Few 62 6 Happy Instruments to Enlarge Our Dominions 80 7 Slavers of the North 97 8 Come Up in the Night with Them 102 9 You May Own Negroes and Negresses 116 PART III The Master 10 Antigua 125 11 Crime, Punishment, and Compensation 145 12 Homecoming 156 13 The Benefactor 167 14 Luxury on the Grandest Scale 183 PART IV The Petitioner 15 We Shall Not Be Slaves 197 16 Within the Bowels of a Free Country 206 17 Death Is Not the Worst of Evils 215 18 Reparations 228 x CONTENTS PARTV The Legacy 19 City upon a Hill 239 Afterword Letter from Antigua, Easter Monday, 2008 257 Note to Readers 267 Notes on Sources 271 Acknowledgments 305 List of Illustrations 309 Index 311 ...

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