| Abstract | 第1-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·The Reasons for Choosing the Topie | 第12页 |
| ·The Research Background of the Paper | 第12-13页 |
| ·Definitions of Some Terms in the Paper | 第13页 |
| ·An Overview of the Thesis | 第13-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第16-21页 |
| ·Review of International Achievements in This Field | 第16-18页 |
| ·Review of Domestic Achievements in this Field | 第18-19页 |
| ·Inspiration from Literature Review | 第19页 |
| ·The Significance of Writing the Thesis | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter 3 Forms and Development of North American Slavery | 第21-28页 |
| ·The Development of the Negro Slave Trade | 第21-23页 |
| ·The Development of Slavery | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Causes of the Formation of Slavery | 第24-26页 |
| ·Southern Plantation Slavery | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter 4 Economic Status of Southern Slaves before the Civil War | 第28-41页 |
| ·Labor Conditions of Slaves | 第28-33页 |
| ·Gender Division of Labor | 第29-31页 |
| ·The Gang System and Task System | 第31-32页 |
| ·The Slave Hiring System | 第32-33页 |
| ·Living Conditions of Slaves | 第33-41页 |
| ·The Slaves' Diet | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Slaves' Family and the Kinship System | 第35-39页 |
| ·The Slaves' Housing and Clothes | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter 5 Economic Status of Southern Free Blacks during the ReconstructionEra | 第41-47页 |
| ·The Desire for Land | 第41-43页 |
| ·The Sharecropping System | 第43-45页 |
| ·The Wage System and the Squad System | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter 6 Political Status of Southern Slaves before the Civil War | 第47-54页 |
| ·Overseers and Slaves | 第47-48页 |
| ·Masters and Slaves | 第48-51页 |
| ·Resistance | 第51-54页 |
| Chapter 7 Political Status of Southern Free Blacks during the ReconstructionEra | 第54-66页 |
| ·Lincoln's Moderate Policies of Reconstruction | 第54-57页 |
| ·Andrew Johnson's Policies of Reconstruction | 第57-59页 |
| ·Radical Reconstruction | 第59-66页 |
| ·The Fourteenth Amendment and the Segregation | 第60-63页 |
| ·The Fifteenth Amendment and Racial Prejudice | 第63-66页 |
| Conclusion | 第66-69页 |
| References | 第69-73页 |
