'The book's most enduring contribution is its broad scope spanning ancient history to contemporary issues regarding poverty, disenfranchisement, and human trafficking … This book will surely impact future studies regarding slavery, intellectual history, and systemic racism … Recommended.' C. L. Stacey, Choice
1. The emotional foundations of racialized slavery; 2. Scientific racism and emotional difference; 3. Atlantic slavery and its passionate transgressions; 4. The 'abolition' of an economic apparatus of feelings; 5. The racialization of emotions in contemporary slavery; Bibliography.