pt. I. A prayer. Prayer for my daughter (poem) / Nancy Rawles
pt. II. Overcoming slavery's legacies in the United States. The paradox of silence and display: sexual violation of enslaved women and contemporary contradictions in Black female sexuality / Dorothy Roberts
From Mammy to welfare queen: images of Black women in public-policy formation / Emilie M. Townes
From plantations to prisons: African American women prisoners in the United States / Ellen M. Barry
pt. III. Overcoming slavery's legacies in religious law. The purchase of his money: slavery and the ethics of Jewish marriage / Gail Labovitz
Slavery and sexual ethics in Islam / Kecia Ali
pt. IV. Ancient origins of the problems. "She shall not go free as male slaves do": developing views about slavery and gender in the laws of the Hebrew Bible / David P. Wright
Early Christianity, slavery, and women's bodies / Jennifer A. Glancy
Gender, slavery, and technology: the shaping of the early Christian moral imagination / Sheila Briggs
pt. V. Why sexual ethics needs history. "As if she were his wife": slavery and sexual ethics in late medieval Spain / Debra Blumenthal
Love, sex, slavery, and Sally Hemings / Mia Bay
Breaking the silence: sexual hypocrisies from Thomas Jefferson to Strom Thurmond / Catherine Clinton
pt. VI. Should the Bible form the basis of public policy? The Bible, slavery, and the problem of authority / Sylvester A. Johnson
The "purity of the white woman, not the purity of the Negro woman": the contemporary legacies of historical laws against interracial marriage / Fay Botham
pt. VII. The stories we tell. Mammy's daughters; or, the DNA of a feminist sexual ethics / Frances Smith Foster
pt. VIII. Restorative justice. Enslaved Black women: a theology of justice and reparations / Dwight N. Hopkins
pt. IX. A mediation. A visit from the old mistress (oil on canvas by Winslow Homer) (poem) / Florence Ladd.