Bernadette J. Brooten is Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University.

• Introduction; B.J.Brooten PART I: A PRAYER Prayer for my Daughter (Poem); N.Rawles PART 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; D.Roberts From Mammy to Welfare Queen: Images of Black Women in Public-Policy Formation; E.M.Townes From Plantations to Prisons: African American Women Prisoners in the United States; E.Barry PART III: OVERCOMING SLAVERY'S LEGACIES IN RELIGIOUS LAW The Purchase of His Money: Slavery and the Ethics of Jewish Marriage; G.Labovitz Slavery and Sexual Ethics in Islam; K.Ali PART IV: ANCIENT ORIGINS OF THE PROBLEM 'She Shall Not Go Free as Male Slaves Do': Developing Views about Slavery and Gender in the Laws of the Hebrew Bible; D.P.Wright Early Christianity, Slavery, and Women's Bodies; J.A.Glancy Gender, Slavery, and Technology: The Shaping of the Early Christian Moral Imagination; S.Briggs PART V: WHY SEXUAL ETHICS NEEDS HISTORY 'As If She Were His Wife': Slavery and Sexual Ethics in Late Medieval Spain; D.Blumenthal Love, Sex, Slavery, and Sally Hemings; M.Bay Breaking the Silence: Sexual Hypocrisies from Thomas Jefferson to Strom Thurmond; C.Clinton PART VI: SHOULD THE BIBLE FORM THE BASIS OF PUBLIC POLICY The Bible, Slavery, and the Problem of Authority; S.A.Johnson The 'Purity of the White Woman, Not the Purity of the Negro Woman': The Contemporary Legacies of Historical Laws Against Interracial Marriage; F.Botham PART VII: THE STORIES WE TELL Mammy's Daughters; Or, the DNA of a Feminist Sexual Ethics; F.Smith Foster PART VIII: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE Enslaved Black Women: A Theology of Justice and Reparations; D.N.Hopkins PART IX: A MEDITATION A Visit from the Old Mistress (Poem); F.Ladd Epilogue; M.Nazer with B.J.Brooten