Includes bibliographical references (pages [119]-123) and index.

Moving toward Black Freedom -- Black Life Forms -- Death and Freedom -- Black Death -- Plantation Zones -- Diaspora Studies -- The Atlantic Region and -- New States of Being -- The Long Emancipation -- Catastrophe, Wake, Hauntology -- Bodies of Water -- Slave Ship Logics/Logistics -- Problem of the Human, or The Void of Relationality -- No Happy Story -- I Really Want to Hope -- Funk: A Black Note on the Human -- Newness -- Toward a Saggin' Pants Ethics -- Black Men, Style and Fashion -- No Future -- (Future) Black Studies -- The Long Emancipation Revisited.

"The Long Emancipation is a mediation on the question of freedom for Black people globally. Taking as its starting point emancipation in the US and the British Caribbean, the volume argues that wherever Black people have been emancipated from slavery and colonization that a potential freedom became thwarted. Taking examples from across the globe, The Long Emancipation posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom"--