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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Settings and Eras -- Chapter 1: The Slave Trade and Slavery in the Americas: Transcontinental Trends -- PART II: From Conquest to the End of the Seven Years' War (1501-1763) -- Chapter 2: Marronage: A Risky but Possible Path to Freedom -- Chapter 3: Self-Purchase and Military Service: Legal but Limited Paths to Emancipation -- Chapter 4: Conspiracy and Revolt: The Most Perilous Paths to Freedom -- PART III: The Age of Revolution and Independence (1763-1825) -- Chapter 5: Slaves as Actors on the Path to U.S. Independence -- Chapter 6: From the Slave Revolt in Saint Domingue to the Founding of the Black Nation of Haiti -- Chapter 7: The Shock Waves of the Haitian Revolution -- Chapter 8: The Wars of Independence in Continental Iberian America: New Opportunities for Liberation -- PART IV: Defending Slavery versus Abolitionism (1800-1838) -- Chapter 9: Marronage and the Purchase of Freedom: Old Strategies in New Times -- Chapter 10: Revolts and Abolitionism -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

Part one. What we are. The state on trial -- Subjects of the law : a repressive theory of power -- From law to critique -- Part two. The state and violence. Civilization and its lies -- See the state for what it is -- The double reality of violence -- Part three. The system of judgement. Beyond responsibility -- The politics of perceptions -- An individualizing narrative -- React differently -- Part four. The system of punishment. Accuse and punish -- The logic of punishment -- What is a crime? : the fictional frameworks of penality -- Penality, sovereignty, and democracy -- Part five. See the world : rethinking sociology

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