The transatlantic slave trade comes to Georgia / James A. McMillin -- "The King of England's soldiers": armed blacks in Savannah and its hinterlands during the Revolutionary War era, 1778-1787 / Timothy Lockley -- At the intersection of cotton and commerce: antebellum Savannah and its slaves / Susan Eva O'Donovan -- To "venerate the spot" of "airy visions": slavery and the romantic conception of place in Mary Telfair's Savannah / Jeffrey Robert Young -- Slave life in Savannah: geographies of autonomy and control / Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry -- Free black life in Savannah / Janice L. Sumler-Edmond -- Wartime workers, moneymakers: Black labor in Civil War-era Savannah / Jacqueline Jones -- "We defy you!": politics and violence in reconstruction Savannah / Jonathan M. Bryant -- "The fighting has not been in vain": African American intellectuals in Jim Crow Savannah / Bobby J. Donaldson.