Introduction: Freedom and its dark sides
Part 1. Savage freedom: Piracy, childhood, and alternate racial visions of liberty
Lady of Freedom, Lady of Whiteness: The Statue of Liberty as symbol of white freedom
Part 2. Black slavery, white freedom:Freedom and race in the era of liberal revolution
Empire, racial citizenship, and liberal democracy
Part 3. Fighting for whose liberty? Freedom and race in the era of total war
Freedom now? The fall and rise of white freedom during the Cold War
Conclusion: White freedom and freedom from whiteness.
