Owning slaves, disowning slavery -- Rebellion and reaction -- Opening the slave trade -- Extending slavery -- Paternalism emerges -- Paternalism contested -- The scare -- Analyzing the scare -- Reacting to the scare -- Discourses of colonization -- Rumors and insurrection -- The upper south debates slavery and colonization -- Tennessee debates slavery -- Ending free Black suffrage in North Carolina -- Reaction in the lower south -- Abolition poison and southern antidotes -- The ideological reconfiguration of slavery in the lower south.
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