'McKinley's extensive work with church documents complicates the existing scholarship on slaves as legal actors … a primer on the most prominent types of legal disputes involving slaves.' Emily Berquist Soule, Latin American Research Review
Introduction; 1. Litigating liberty; 2. Conjugal chains; 3. Dangerous dependencies; 4. Freedom at the font; 5. Till death do us part; 6. Buyer beware; 7. Conclusion.