Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in New York City Book

	Introduction : "the angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed" : awaking to history on Manhattan Island	3
Pt. I	From frontier outpost to settler colony : the project of colony building on Manhattan Island
1	"To better people their land, and to bring the country to produce more abundantly" : territory, trade, conquest, and the project of colony building on Manhattan Island under Dutch rule, 1624-1664	23
2	"Nothing that is necessary is to be discouraged" : immigration, labor, and the project of colony building under English rule, 1664-1774	53
Pt. II	Racial formation and the art of colonial governance
3	"A difference amongst ourselves" : divisions of religion and language, solidarities of race and nation in colonial New York City's settler population	91
4	"One and the same interest" : antiblack racism and colonial domination with and without hegemony	124
5	"The most natural view of the whole" : discovering the "plot of 1741-42" and the discursive construction of the "dangerous other" in the colonialist discourse of conspiracy	159
Pt. III	Subaltern insurgency and the breakdown of colonial governance
6	"We shall never be quite safe" : policing the fugitive body of colonial New York City's servile population	189
7	"The happiness of liberty of which I knew nothing before" : passports to freedom and the black exodus from post-revolutionary New York City	210
	Epilogue. "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" : the aporia of American democracy and the permanence of racism	227
App. A	Elias Neau's short question-and-answer catechism	239