Table of Contents:
  • "Useful Liberty" : Genealogies of English liberty, the Norman yoke, and the Anglo-Saxons
  • "Confined to Complexion" : Histories of unfreedom and Granville Sharp's Anglo-Saxonist abolitionism
  • Temporal bonds : The Kembles' Anglo-Saxon family ties and the problem of slavery
  • White possessions and the "negro yoke" : Proximity, distance, and communities of memory at the Butler plantations
  • Afterword : Intimate histories, journeys, names, ruins.