Bonds of citizenship: law and the labors of emancipation

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.