Съдържание:
  • Introduction: "A man from another country"
  • citizenship and the bonds of labor
  • Bound by law: apprenticeship and the culture of 'free' labor
  • Civic virtues: narrative form and the trial of character in early America
  • Fugitive bonds: contract and the culture of constitutionalism
  • Hereditary bondsman: Frederick Douglass and the spirit of the law
  • "If man will strike": Moby Dick and the letter of the law
  • Conclusion: the labors of emancipation
  • founded law and freedom defined.