In the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract. The antislavery claim was that the negation of chattel status lay in the contracts of wage labor and marriage. Signifying self-ownership, volition, and reciprocal exchange among formally equal individuals, contract became the dominant metaphor for social relations and the very symbol of freedom. This 1999 book explores how a generation of American thinkers and reformers - abolitionists, former slaves, feminists, labor advocates, jurists, moralists, and social scientists - drew on contract to condemn the evils of chattel slavery as well as to measure the virtues of free society. Their arguments over the meaning of slavery and freedom were grounded in changing circumstances of labor and home life on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. At the heart of these arguments lay the problem of defining which realms of self and social existence could be rendered market commodities and which could not.

Bored with the humdrum of suburban life, Susan is tempted into signing a mysterious contract for a fabulous fee. It's no secret that our heroine is naive and ingenuous to the point of disbelief, but this merely adds spice to her perilous adventures in a distant oil rich Middle Eastern country. Outfitted in a severe bondage uniform, Susan is flown to her Palace of servitude to begin her contract as a bondage and pleasure slave.

Breaking the Devil's Contract is a guide to learning how people engage with and submit to demonic forces. This book will help you to recognize all of the areas of your life that you have made a contract with the enemy. This contract gives the enemy the right to be in your life to control your thoughts and actions. You give the permission and the enemy takes the wheel with your agreement every step of the way. You can break this contract with God's help but you must find out how to do it in this book. Have you ever wondered why you keep sinning in a certain area of your life? Have you wondered why you keep doing the things that you do not want to do? Learn how to break this cycle with the Power of God! Break the Devil's Contract and be free in Jesus to serve God with all of your heart! You will never have to obey the Devil again when he tells you what to do! Restore the Joy of your salvation! Start reading today to break the Devil's Contract! In this book you will learn how to: - Understand the Devil's Contract and how it is formed - Break the Devil's Contract using the Power of God - Be free from satanic control, powers, and curses - Understand and use the Armor of God against the enemy - Walk in the Authority and Power of the Holy Spirit - Be filled with the Holy Spirit and the Fruits of the Spirit - Have the Abundant Life of Joy and Victory Jesus promised Rev. Paul T. Cross has a Master's Degree in Theology and has been in ministry for over 20 years. Rev. Cross is called by God to the Pastoral and Deliverance Ministry. He is anointed to teach the Word of God to help people learn how to break the power of the enemy. If you apply the truth in this book to your life then you will Break the Devil's Contract and never be oppressed by the Devil again! The Joy of the Lord is your strength! Get your Joy back and follow the Lord to victory!

Are you curious about kink, BDSM, power exchange, role play, bondage, S/M or all of the above? Have you ever wanted to dominate or serve your lover? Not sure where to start? Having a structured document to go over is a great way to get the conversation started.This practical guide is ideal for establishing a power exchange relationship. Use this document to define your wants, needs, limits, boundaries and expectations. There?s a reason why people who bring kink into the bedroom are often happier. It?s because they are usually more aware of and talkative about their sexual desires. Is it time to explore yours?Adds a new dynamic to your relationship. This deed covers all the essentials of a power exchange. Suitable for all levels of BDSM (from training to a total power exchange) including Master/slave, Mistress/slave or Dominant/submissive dynamics.Helps you bring up the topic. Some never get the chance to express their desires. This could be from fear of being judged (even by your own partner) or perhaps not knowing how to approach the topic. Filling out a Kinky Contract is a light-hearted way to introduce a saucy conversation.Entices you to explore. Going over this document together can be fun and exciting (a real eye opener). The Activity Questionnaire guides you to create, talk about and plan your kinky scenes.Keeps communication open. A main reason any relationship fizzles is lack of communication. A written agreement encourages you to negotiate and communicate with each other. Revise it regularly to stay on track and to keep things fresh.Helps you stick to the arrangement. Having your rules set out in writing makes your roles seem more official.Suitable for: Married couples, partners & lovers looking to explore a kinky lifestyle; and BDSM couples (D/s, M/s) wishing to define the relationship.It?s fun and easy to start.Please note: the Kinky Contract is for entertainment purposes only. It is NOT legally binding.

As states across the country battle internally over same-sex marriage in the courts, in legislatures, and at the ballot box, activists and scholars grapple with its implications for the status of gays and lesbians and for the institution of marriage itself. Yet, the struggle over same-sex marriage is only the most recent political and public debate over marriage in the United States. What is at stake for those who want to restrict marriage and for those who seek to extend it? Why has the issue become such a national debate? These questions can be answered only by viewing marriage as a political institution as well as a religious and cultural one. In its political dimension, marriage circumscribes both the meaning and the concrete terms of citizenship. Marriage represents communal duty, moral education, and social and civic status. Yet, at the same time, it represents individual choice, contract, liberty, and independence from the state. According to Priscilla Yamin, these opposing but interrelated sets of characteristics generate a tension between a politics of obligations on the one hand and a politics of rights on the other. To analyze this interplay, American Marriage examines the status of ex-slaves at the close of the Civil War, immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century, civil rights and women's rights in the 1960s, and welfare recipients and gays and lesbians in the contemporary period. Yamin argues that at moments when extant political and social hierarchies become unstable, political actors turn to marriage either to stave off or to promote political and social changes. Some marriages are pushed as obligatory and necessary for the good of society, while others are contested or presented as dangerous and harmful. Thus political struggles over race, gender, economic inequality, and sexuality have been articulated at key moments through the language of marital obligations and rights. Seen this way, marriage is not outside the political realm but interlocked with it in mutual evolution.

A vivid examination of slave life in New Orleans in the early nineteenth century.

American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinely assert that the Supreme Court's state action doctrine halted Reconstruction in its tracks. But it didn't. Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction demolishes the conventional wisdom - and puts a constructive alternative in its place. Pamela Brandwein unveils a lost jurisprudence of rights that provided expansive possibilities for protecting blacks' physical safety and electoral participation, even as it left public accommodation rights undefended. She shows that the Supreme Court supported a Republican coalition and left open ample room for executive and legislative action. Blacks were abandoned, but by the president and Congress, not the Court. Brandwein unites close legal reading of judicial opinions (some hitherto unknown), sustained historical work, the study of political institutions, and the sociology of knowledge. This book explodes tired old debates and will provoke new ones.