Introduction / Ezra Tawil
1. Slavery in the eighteenth-century literary imagination / Philip Gould
2. U.S. antislavery tracts and the literary imagination / Teresa A. Goddu
3. White slaves in the late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literary imagination / Joe Shapiro
4. Slave narratives as literature / Sarah Meer
5. Slavery and the emergence of the African American novel / John C. Havard
6. Proslavery fiction / Gavin Jones and Judith Richardson
7. The poetry of slavery / Meredith L. McGill
8. Reading slavery and 'classic' American literature / Robert S. Levine
9. Slavery's performance-texts / Douglas A. Jones, Jr.
10. The music and the musical inheritance of slavery / Radiclani Clytus
11. U.S. slave revolutions in Atlantic world literature / Paul Giles
12. Slavery and American literature 1900-1945 / Tim Armstrong
13. Moving pictures: spectacles of enslavement in American cinema / Sharon Willis
14. Slavery and historical memory in late-twentieth-century fiction / Ashraf H.A. Rushdy
15. Beyond the borders of the neo-slave narrative: science fiction and fantasy / Jeffrey Allen Tucker.
