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    I appreciate the confidence of Cornell’s History Department, especially a series of supportive chairs: Sandra Greene, Victor Koschmann, Barry Strauss, and Isabel Hull. The History staff, above all Katie Kristof and Maggie Edwards, not only did a great job, but also taught me a lot about friendship. In my other life on campus, on West Campus and especially at Carl Becker House, I have to thank Cindy Hazan and Laura Schaefer Brown in particular, but also Renee Alexander, Garrick Blalock, Rick Canfield, Isaac Kramnick, and Elmira Mangum. Above all, when it comes to Becker House I am deeply grateful to our incredible assistant dean, Amanda Carreiro. Along with her, I thank our assistants Jesse Hilliker and Victoria Gonzalez, as well as Tony Kveragas and Eileen Hughes, and the wonderful graduate and undergraduate student staff members with whom I have worked. Among the latter, I want to name in particular Neal Allar, Tinenenji Banda, Fritz Bartel, Joyce Chery, Ryan Edwards, Kelsey Fugere, Jeremy Fuller, Aziza Glass, Darvin Griffin, Louis Hopkins, Janice Chi-lok Lau, Javier Perez Burgos, Jon Senchyne, and Kavita Singh.
    I have benefited for many years from the teaching, guidance, and mentoring of Drew Gilpin Faust, Richard Dunn, the late John Hope Franklin, David Johnson, Robert F. Moore, and my parents Ed and Lynda Baptist. I would forget my own self without my friends Luther Adams, Stephen Bumgardner, and Justin Warf to remind me of who I am.
    As this book was going to press, my friend Stephanie M. H. Camp passed away. She was a great historian of slavery, and in this book, she would see much that she had shaped. But to me, she was my older, wiser sister, always there for me when things were at their lowest ebb. I will miss her grace and her laughter as long as I live. I still hear her voice in the words that she wrote, and I see her in the inspiration she gave to so many others. To feel those things is its own kind of grace, sweet and painful, a left hand that holds me up in its palm.
    This book would have remained forever entombed in my computer without Donnette’s unflagging support, enthusiasm, and love. Now it lives, because she helped breathe the spirit back into me.
    Above all, the book is for my children Lillian and Ezra, who have known this story from before-times. In many ways it has made us. But stories change with each passing day. Now we are writing our own chapters.

ABBREVIATIONS
AHR
American Historical Review
AS
George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography , 18 vols. (Westport, CT, 1971–1979)
ASAI
Theodore Weld, American Slavery As It Is (New York, 1839)
BD
Baptist Database, collected from Notarial Archives of New Orleans
BIELLER
Alonzo Snyder Papers, LLMVC
CAJ
Correspondence of Andrew Jackson , ed. John Spencer Bassett, 7 vols. (Washington, DC, 1926–1935)
CATTERALL
Helen T. Catterall, ed., Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro , 5 vols. (Washington, DC, 1926–1937)
CG
Washington Congressional Globe
CHSUS
Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright, eds., Cambridge Historical Statistics of the U.S. (Cambridge, MA, 2006)
Duke
David M. Rubenstein Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
GHQ
Georgia Historical Quarterly
GSMD
God Struck Me Dead [vol. 19 of AS]
HALL
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, ed., Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719–1820 , www.ibiblio.org/laslave/ , accessed January 6, 2014
HAY
Haywood Family Papers, SHC
HSUS
Historical Statistics of the United States: 1789–1945 (Washington, DC, 1949)
JAH
Journal of American History
JCC
John C. Calhoun, The Papers of John C. Calhoun , ed. Clyde Wilson, 28 vols. (Columbia, SC, 1959–2003)
JER
Journal of the Early Republic
JKP
James K. Polk Papers, Library of Congress
JQA
John Quincy