Diverse Unfreedoms charts a new way of thinking through the ways the legacies of plantation slavery haunt the contemporary moment, by offering a more multidirectional model of historical change and continuity drawing on a variety of regions and different disciplinary perspectives.

1. Introduction: Diverse Unfreedoms -The Afterlives and Transformations of Post-Transatlantic Bondages Part I: Transitions 2. A "Sentiment of Humanity"?: Child Protection, Surveillance, and State Guardianship in Senegal, 1895-1910 3. Benevolent Complicity: The Detention of Unaccompanied Children in the United States Part II: Legacies 4. Post-Apartheid Nostalgia and its Images of Common Sense 5. "You are My Slave!": Adjacent Relations of Unfreedom in Care Work and the Racialization of West African Care Workers 6. Abolitionist Action Heroes: Operation Underground Railroad and the Material Cultures of Philanthropy Part III: Reimaginings 7. Disenchanting Freedom in Sylvia Wynter's The Hills of Hebron 8. Freedom as Staying: Race, Religious History, and Carceral Ethnography in Chicago 9. The Blood That Has Dried in the Codes: Sovereignty, Right, and the (Im)Possibilities of Freedom. "Arrival Day"