Introduction : A humanistic perspective / Kenneth M. Stampp
Part one : Masters and slaves
Capitalist masters, bourgeois slaves / Paul A. David and Peter Temin
Sambo makes good, or were slaves imbued with the Protestant work ethic? / Herbert Gutman and Richard Sutch
The slave family : protected agent of capitalist masters or victim of the slave trade? / Herbert Gutman and Richard Sutch
Victorians all? The sexual mores and conduct of slaves and their masters / Herbert Gutman and Richard Sutch
Part two : Institution and economy
Slavery : the progressive institution? / Paul A. David and Peter Temin
The care and feeding of slaves / Richard Sutch
Prosperity, progress, and American slavery / Gavin Wright
Time on the cross and the burden of quantitative history.