Prologue -- The enterprise of freedom -- Reckonings -- My brother -- "Ain't that peculiar" : "slave plantations", Angola prison, and perpetuity, part I -- "Ain't that peculiar" : "slave plantations", Angola prison, and perpetuity, part II -- American plantation lullabies -- An accounting -- Patriarchy : the slavery we swim in -- "Barracoon" revisited -- Re-membering, re-rooting : ain't we all got a right to the Tree of Life? -- Epilogue: And justice for all.