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This interdisciplinary seminar will focus on slavery's forms, structures, and logics. But, as the title suggests, it will also concentrate on those remnants of slavery that outlast its purported ends. We'll spend much of the semester surveying the boundary lines that are imagined to separate slavery and freedom (geographical, temporal, legal), bringing into question the times and spaces thought proper to each. Anchored in nineteenth-century America but extending into our own moment, our texts will address the entrapments of freedom, the life and death of the slave commodity, the racial protocols of the law, and the architectures of captivity.